Cade (unit)

Cade was a measure of varying importance.

France

• Cade was a French measure of volume.

Algeria

Cade was a yardstick in Algeria.

• 1 cade = 210 Paris lines = 0.4737 meters

Morocco

Cade, also Cadée, was a yardstick in Morocco.

• • 1 cade = 229 Paris lines = 0.514 meters
  • 1 cade = 1 foot and 7 inches and 8 lines (Rhineland measurements)

England

As an English measure, it was a piece measure .

• 1 cade = 1 keg with 500 herrings or 1000 anchovies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt: The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 135.
2. ^ Heinrich August Pierer : Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present. Volume 3, Heinrich August Pierer, Altenburg 1857, p. 406.
3. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 31.
4. ↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt: The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 135.