Top (unit)

Topp , seldom Topf or Top was a term in Low German for the amount of 40 pieces of Risten, Reisten or Kauten (K. = handful) of flax. The size played a role in manual breaking. According to another source, there are 44 panicles when broken mechanically.

literature

Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 375.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect: According to the last edition 1793–1801 . Volume 6, published by Contomax GmbH & Co. KG. Berlin, Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8430-4470-7 , p. 59.
↑ Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic-Technological Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, town, house and agriculture, and the history of art . Volume 186, Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1845, p. 63.
^ Carl Ernst Mayer, Johann Gottfried Elsner, Carl E. Hammerschmidt: General Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für den Landwirth, Forstmann and Gaertner: Centralblatt for the results of scientific research . Volume 11, Gerold, 1830, p. 273.

[1] Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect: According to the last edition 1793–1801 . Volume 6, published by Contomax GmbH & Co. KG. Berlin, Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8430-4470-7 , p. 59.

[2] Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic-Technological Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, town, house and agriculture, and the history of art . Volume 186, Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1845, p. 63.

[3] Carl Ernst Mayer, Johann Gottfried Elsner, Carl E. Hammerschmidt: General Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für den Landwirth, Forstmann and Gaertner: Centralblatt for the results of scientific research . Volume 11, Gerold, 1830, p. 273.