Tenth (unit)

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Tenth was the name for a unit of volume in Nassau . The grain measure was a smaller measure from the new painter .

1 tenth = 10 liters
- 1 Malter (new) = 10 tenths = 20 cups = 100 liters

For comparison:

1 Malter (old) = 4 Viernsel = 16 Kumpf = 64 Gescheid = 109.06 liters

literature

Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 13, Leipzig 1908, p. 191.
Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 270.