Sjømil: Literally a 'Sea Mil (mile)' I came across this in my research, and found that is was the same distance as a Vike. This measurement was used in the Viking times, but how often I don't know. This measurement is still used today, I think, but may not be the same distance.
The Viking ell was the measure from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about 18 inches (460 mm). The Viking or primitive ell was used in Iceland up to the 13th century. By the 13th century, a law set the "stika" as equal to 2 ells which was the English ell of the time.
A Scandinavian mile (Norwegian and Swedish: mil, [miːl], like "meal") is a unit of length common in Norway and Sweden, but not Denmark. Today, it is standardised as 1 mil being 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), but it had different values in the past.
The standard linear measure in the Imperial system was the mile, which was divided into furlongs, chains, yards, feet and inches. The mile was based on a Roman measurement of 1,000 paces. The word 'furlong' comes from 'a furrow long', or the distance that could be ploughed by an ox without a rest.
rôst. About 1 mile. Literally "a rest" but used of the distance travelled between two rest-stops, a distance which varried by type of terrain but which was around a mile. vika.
But what, exactly, IS a perch? measuring exactly 5½ yards or 16½ feet or ¼ of a surveyor's chain. The perch or rod was helpful tool and measurement for a surveyor because it could be used to create a 'perfect' acre of 40 perches by 4 perches – remember 160 perches equals an acre.
One out of four equal parts of the whole is known as one-fourth. It is also known as a quarter.
The Egyptian cubit, the Indus Valley units of length referred to above and the Mesopotamian cubit were used in the 3rd millennium BC and are the earliest known units used by ancient peoples to measure length.
Ancient measurement of length was based on the human body, for example the length of a foot, the length of a stride, the span of a hand, and the breadth of a thumb. There were unbelievably many different measurement systems developed in early times, most of them only being used in a small locality.
The ships were powered by oars or by the wind, and had one large, square sail, most probably made from wool. Leather strips criss-crossed the wool to keep its shape when it was wet. Viking ships also had oars.
Sjømil: Literally a 'Sea Mil (mile)' I came across this in my research, and found that is was the same distance as a Vike. This measurement was used in the Viking times, but how often I don't know. This measurement is still used today, I think, but may not be the same distance.
But, they did have timekeepers: the sun and the stars. By watching the sun during the day, and noting which local landmark it was above, they could estimate the few milestones they needed during the day.
furlong, old English unit of length, based on the length of an average plowed furrow (hence “furrow-long,” or furlong) in the English open- or common-field system. Each furrow ran the length of a 40 × 4-rod acre, or 660 modern feet.
A noggin (or gill) was first used to describe a quarter pint and later a half pint. The ale gallon, which Queen Elizabeth I of England established but is no longer used today, is equal to about 1.22 gallons (to account for all the foam that comes out from the tap, perhaps?).
The metre is made up of pairs of lines, each with two stressed syllables and bound by alliteration, followed by a third line called "the full line" which has its own alliteration and either 2 or 3 stressed syllables. Normally two segments of three lines make up a stanza.
The measurement we use today called “foot” is 12 inches long and was actually the length of King Henry I's foot. The inch was the length of 3 grains of barley end-to-end or the width of a man's thumb. The length between someone's outstretched arms was called a fathom.
archeology and literature suggests an average length for the common cubit of 44.5 cm (17.5 in.).” This citation also gives a range of 42–48 cm (17–19 in) for the cubit. Range is an important parameter because it indicates the variation operating on this measure.
It is one of the Imperial units and U.S. customary units. The shortest way of writing the unit "foot" is by the abbreviation "ft" (or "ft."), or by a prime symbol ( ′ ). One foot contains 12 inches.
The smallest possible size for anything in the universe is the Planck Length, which is 1.6 x10-35 m across.
The most common units that we use to measure length in the metric system are the millimeter, centimeter, meter, and kilometer. The millimeter is the smallest commonly used unit in the metric system.
Some Interesting Facts: The smallest length with any meaning is the Planck length (about 1.6 x 10-35 meter) Quarks are very very small (less than 10-19 meters) A Hydrogen atom is about 100 picometers in diameter (1.06 x 10-10 meters)
The fraction 3/4 or three quarters means 3 parts out of 4.
3/4: Three quarter-note beats per measure. 3. 4/4: Four quarter-note beats per measure.
1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons. 1 dessert spoon (UK) = 2.4 teaspoons. 16 tablespoons = 1 cup.