Clove
The clove or nail was an English measure of weight and was primarily used for wool .
Wool
- 1 clove = ½ stone = 7 pounds of avoirdupois = 3126 4/5 grams (or 3.17475 kilograms )
- 4 cloves (quarters) = 1 death
- 26 Cloves = 1 Wey
- 52 cloves = 1 sack
- 624 cloves = 1 load / load
Other goods
Values for butter and cheese
- 1 clove = 8 pounds of avoirdupois
Note: Nail was also a Dutch weight measure of 2812 ½ grams
literature
- Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 242
Individual evidence
- ^ GH Andrews, MH Schilling: Modern English Agriculture. B. Fr. Voigt, Weimar 1855, p. 403.