HERB - A soap question Fw: [SCA-Caid]Medieval Weights and Measures Quest...
Hemophelia@aol.com
Hemophelia at aol.com
Sun Jun 20 17:44:44 PDT 1999
I asked the resident brewer. . .he looked it up in one of his books. . .this
was the answer he gave me. . .
Zupko (the author of the book. . .) defines a strike as:
A measure of capacity for grain generally containing 2 bushels (about 7.05
dekaliters) and equal to 1/4 SEAM. In some shires, however, strikes of 1/2
to 4 bushels (about 1.76 to about 14.10 dekaliter) were occasionally used.
The strike was commonly called the half-coomb. Since the establishment of
the Imperial system in 1824 the strike has been reconed at 2 bushel (7.274
dekaliter) and equal to 1/2 COOMB and 1/4 QUARTER. Occasionally, it was
abbreviated str.
Reference -
Zupko, Ronald Edward. A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures, The
Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
Helene
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