Sink (unit)

Spuhl , also Spul, was a counting measure in the Prussian Königsberg and in the yarn trade for packing several skeins .

• 1 Spuhl = 2 pieces = 4 Toll = 40 containers = 1600 threads (3734.8 meters)

The thread was calculated with a length of 3½ cubits (berliner = 0.6669 meters).

Other names for a measure of bundles of strands of yarn

• Bushes
• Matto
• pack

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg clerk: who gives a complicated message about the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries located in and outside Europe and such described coin types, weights and measurements, especially against those in Hamburg, but then also, in the tables given, against those in use in other places. Volume 1, Verlag Erben des Verfassers, Hamburg 1808, p. 296
2. ^ Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 475
3. ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 411.
4. ↑ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of geography and statistics of the Prussian state according to its newest regulations. Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, p. 137