Ruth (unit)

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Rut was a Swiss measure of volume for grain in Solothurn . The measure corresponded to the sixteen in the Swiss canton of Bern .

1 rut = ¼ immi = 1/16 mass = 0.828 liters

literature

Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 260.