Waist (unit)

Waist was a Belgian measure of length.

• 1 waist = 43.4375 millimeters
• 16 Tailles = 1 cubit = 695 millimeters

literature

• HA Pierer: Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present or Latest Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Crafts. Volume 17, HA Pierer, Altenburg 1872, p. 207.
• August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science, containing: coin, measure and weight, bills of exchange, government paper, banking and stock exchange; the most important of higher arithmetic […]. Volume 1, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1837, p. 220.