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Gallon

A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

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Barrel 70% connected

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

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Bushel 70% connected

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

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Firkin 70% connected

A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.

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Quart 70% connected

The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

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Congius 92% connected

A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

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Bath noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…

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Boll noun · 78% connection

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…

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Cantarro noun · 78% connection

A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons.

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Capacity noun · 78% connection

capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a great capacity fo…

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Cardiac output noun · 78% connection

the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time; "a resting adult has a cardiac output of about three quart…

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Epha noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.

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Faculty noun · 78% connection

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

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Farad noun · 78% connection

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equ…

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Finger noun · 78% connection

The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…

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Four-in-hand adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

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Gauge noun · 78% connection

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

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Gill noun · 78% connection

A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

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Greisen noun · 78% connection

A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

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Hectolitre noun · 78% connection

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…

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Hin noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

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Hogshead noun · 78% connection

An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe.

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Homer noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…

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Hoop noun · 78% connection

An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

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