Cripple (unit)
The coal measure Krüppel was a volume measure in the Austrian Carinthia .
In the mining industry , a cripple of coal was called a quantity of three sacks. Each of these sacks had to be three cubits long and three cubits around.
- 1 cripple = 3 sacks
Depending on the underlying sack size (also sacks as coal size , not to be confused with the Munich coal sack ), a cripple roughly corresponds to the volume of 2.2 m³.
literature
- Carl Friedrich Richter: The latest mining and smelting lexicon, or alphabetical explanation of all work, tools and artificial words occurring in mining and smelting. Kleefeld'schen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1805, Volume 1, p. 626.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 144