Nail (unit)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A nail, when used as a unit, is usually one sixteenth of a certain base unit. In English usage the most common base units were the foot and the yard for length, the acre for area and the (long) hundredweight for mass.
| Base unit | Equivalent | Metric |
|---|---|---|
| foot | 1 digit = ¾ inch | = 1.905 cm |
| yard | 2¼ inches | = 5.715 cm |
| acre | ¼ rood = 10 square rods | = 252.9285264 m² |
| hundredweight | 1 clove = 7 pounds | = 3.17514659 kg |
(Metric sizes calculated for most common values of the base units today.)
 |
This standards- or measurement-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
