Nail (unit)
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nail-unit-306-10566516
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Nail (unit)
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A nail, as a unit of cloth measurement, is generally a sixteenth of a yard or 21⁄4 inches (5.715 cm). The nail was apparently named after the practice of hammering brass nails into the counter at shops where cloth was sold. On the other hand, R D Connor, in The weights and measures of England states that the nail was the 16th part of a Roman foot, i.e., digitus or finger, although he provides no reference to support this. Zupko's A dictionary of weights and measures for the British Isles states
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Unit of cloth measurement
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(unit)
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2023-03-11T05:25:08Z
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