Caque

Caque , engl. cag or cade, cawg or ked (Walloon), was the barrel in French and can be seen as a piece of measure due to its use . It developed from the Dutch kaken for “ salt herring and pack it in tons”. It was also the name for a powder barrel or a barrel of saltpeter .

• 1 caque = 500 pieces of herrings = 1000 anchovies or sprats

literature

• Author collective: Meyers Konversationslexikon. Volume 3, FA Brockhaus Leipzig / Berlin / Vienna, 1894–1896, p. 797.