Coom

The Coom , also Coomb , Comb or Cornock , was an English measure of volume for exclusively dry goods that could be measured coated. It was a grain measure .

The dimensional chain was

1 coom = 4 bushels ( bushels ) = 16 pecks = 32 gallons = 64 pottles = 128 quarts = 256 pints = 1024 gills
1 quarter = 2 cooms (combs)
1 Coom = 7327 Parisian cubic inches = 145 1/5 liters

literature

Ludolph Schleier: The commercial science. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, p. 79.

Individual evidence

↑ Friedrich Erdmann Petri : Compact handbook of foreign words in German written and colloquial language. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1852, p. 211.
^ ^A ^b Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete handbook of coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 48.
^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 548.

[1] Friedrich Erdmann Petri : Compact handbook of foreign words in German written and colloquial language. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1852, p. 211.

[Krüger-2] A ^b Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete handbook of coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 48.

[3] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 548.