Skieppe

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Skieppe , also Skäppe , was a Danish measure. It was a measure of area and volume. The latter was only intended for Spanish salt and coal .

Volume measure

The dimensional chain for the measure was:

  • 1 load = 18 tons = 144 ski pots = 3,168 pots
  • 1 ton = 8 skieppe = 176 pots = 8564.16 Parisian cubic inches = 169.891 liters

According to other sources, the dimensional chain was

  • 1 Toende = 4 Fjerding = 8 Skieppe = 32 Fjerdingkar = 144 Pott

Area measure

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 plow = 8 tons (hard grain) = 32 tons (Sädeland) = 64 Skieppe = 256 Fjerdingkar = 768 Album = 3072 Penge = 17,920 aquare rode = 1,792,000 aquar fod = 43.6 ares
  • 1 Skieppe = 4 Fjerdingkar = 0.6813 ares

literature

  • Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for business people in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 478

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isaac Smith Homans Jr .: A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation, with maps and engravings. Harper & Brothers, New York 1859, p. 1948
  2. ^ Robert C. Carrington: Foreign measures and their English values. JD Potter, London 1864, p. 26