Goat

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The goat was a measure of volume in Württemberg . The small measure was taken as the grain measure . In other regions it was the Eklen or Ecklein according to the 1806 scale .

Böcklein, also Büschelein, is derived from the term for a pile of collected grain . Sheaf , velvet, velvet, Schäublein or Schübel are synonymous in Franconia . The heap of grain was called a buck and you jacked up (set up) sheaves.

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 bushel = 8 zimri = 32 quads = 256 goats = 177.23 liters

literature

  • Eduard Kreplin: The merchant at the height of his time. A complete presentation of today's commercial science, etc. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1865, p. 289.

Individual evidence

  1. Gunther Schunk: Dictionary of Middle Franconia: an inventory from the surveys of the Linguistic Atlas of Middle Franconia. Königshausen and Neumann, 2000, ISBN 978-3-82601-865-7 , p. 196.