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Seam (unit)

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A Seam is an obsolete unit of volume or mass in the UK.

The Oxford English Dictionary includes definitions of a seam as:

  • 6–8 imperial pecks (55–73 L) of sand
  • 9 imperial pecks (82 L) of apples
  • 8 imperial bushels (290 L) of grain
  • 120 pounds (54 kg) of glass (or 100 pounds (45 kg) in the 14th century)
  • a cart-load, sometimes of a specified amount such as 2 hundredweight (100 kg) of straw or 3 hundredweight (150 kg) of hay or manure.

    • Cardarelli asserts that it was equal to 64 imperial gallons (290 L).

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