Shadow (unit)

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The shade was a unit of mass for honey around Lüneburg .

  • 1 shade = 1/32 ton about 9.38 pounds
  • 1 ton of honey = 300 pounds

literature

  • Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 15. Altenburg 1862, p. 97.
  • Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 3. Leipzig 1798, p. 1370.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl LW Aldefeld: The dimensions and weights of the German Customs Association States and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relations. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1838, p. 81