Oredish

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Oredish , in the sense of ore bowl, was an English measure of weight and was used as a measure for lead ores . This ore bowl was 21 3/10 inches long, 6 inches wide, and 8 2/5 inches deep.

1 Oredish = 17.5911 liters or 152.4 kilograms
1 load = 9 dishes = 3 hundredweight
1 Oredish = 1073.5 cubic inches (English) = 886.8 Parisian cubic inches

literature

Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition, Volume 1. Leipzig 1911, p. 440

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 550.