Gauging stick
The gauging stick, of dialectal German Vertel, quarter (Al. ) is a French Measuring unit of Volume for Liquide S premetric.
A gauging stick was worth 384 exactly inch-of-king cubes, that is to say 8 Pinte S, therefore approximately 7,62 liters. In spite of its name, the gauging stick was not a quarter of a cubic foot-of-king, but two ninth.
the cubic foot-of-king contains large a Grosse of inches square, 1728 = 26 X 3 ³. The Roquille was already defined 1 ½ cubic inches, éléminant thus once the factor three.
to join the cubic foot-of-king, it was necessary that factor 9 is still assumed. For that, the quarter of the cubic foot-of-king is worth 9 pints, but the gauging stick is worth eight of them.
See too
- measuring units of the Old Mode (Volumes)
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