It has also been used as a unit of volume fordrycommodities, denoting roughly 40 bushels.
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It is used for volumes ofdrycommodities(not liquids), most often in agriculture.
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However inventories of mercers in small towns suggest that many were shopkeepers who dealt in various otherdrycommodities, not only cloth.
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In the end it proved impossible to find a common standard for the three remaining sub-standards:drycommoditiesmeasured by weight, liquid materials measured by volume, and individual piecegoods.
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Conversely many names of vases, such as the amphora or the kotyle, were adopted to indicate measures of capacity for liquid ordrycommodities.
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