List of obsolete units of measurement

-derived units of measurement. Several of these are obsolete: the oxgang, the virgate, and the carucate. • Antsingae – a unit of area, smaller than the bunarium. • Bunarium (plural "bunaria") – a unit of area, equal to about 120 ares or 12,000 square metres • Marabba • Morgen • Oxgang • Pari – a unit of area equal to about 1 hectare • Quinaria • Tathe • Virgate ==Energy, etc.==

• Poncelet – unit of power • Sthène – unit of force ==Length==

Human scale (≤1.7 m) Greater than human scale (>1.7 m) ==Luminosity==

(German: Hefnerkerze) • Carcel burner – an efficient lighting device used in the nineteenth century for domestic purposes and in France as the standard measure for illumination • Carcel • Hefner candle • Violle ==Mass or weight==

• Abucco – in Bago, Myanmar, this was a unit of mass used for gold and silver. It was approximately 196.44 grams or 6.316 troy ounces. • Buddam • Candy • Corgee – an obsolete unit of mass equal to 212 moodahs, or rush mat bundles of rice. The unit was used in the Canara (now Kanara) region of Karnataka in India. • Cullingey • Dharni • Dirham • Duella • Dutch cask – a British unit of mass, used for butter and cheese. Equal to . • Esterling • Faggot – has multiple meanings in metrology. As relevant to this article, it was a unit of mass, being . • Grzywna • Keel – a UK unit of mass for coal, equaling • Large sack – a unit of mass equal to 2 (new) sacks • Long ton • Lot • Mark • Munjandie • Oka • Pao • Passeree – a unit of mass equal to about • Pennyweight • Pood • Roll – a U.K. unit of mass for butter and cheese equal to • Room – a U.K. unit of mass of coal equivalent to • Sarpler • Ship load • Slug • Talent – a unit of mass in the tens of kg • Tank • Tod • Truss – a unit of mass used to describe tight bundle of hay or straw. It would usually be cuboid, for storage or shipping, and would either be harvested into such bundles or cut from a large rick. • Whey – a unit of mass used for butter and cheese • Zentner • Zolotnik ==Temperature==

• Delisle scale • Leiden scale • Newton scale – a temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton in 1701. • Réaumur scale • Rømer scale • Wedgwood scale ==Volume (dry or liquid)==

s from 1950s Quebec. From largest to smallest, they are a pinte (quart), a chopine (pint), and a demiard (half-pint). Often-cited figures include 0.95 liters in Cuba (1796), 0.75 liters in Cuba (1862) and 0.7 liters in Colombia (1957). • Bucket • Butt • Chungah • Congius • Coomb • Cord-foot – a U.S. unit of volume for stacked firewood with the symbol cd-ft equal to • Cotyla • Cran • Cullishigay • Deal – a former U.K. and U.S. unit of volume for stacked firewood. A U.K. deal equaled 7 ft × 6 ft × in (178 mm × 1,829 mm × 64 mm; 20.8 l), while a U.S. deal equaled 12 ft × 11 in × in (3,658 mm × 279 mm × 38 mm; 38.8 l). • Demiard – an old French unit of volume. When France metricated, it survived in Louisiana and Quebec. The demiard eventually became associated with the American and British half-pint rather than French units. • Firlot • Hekat • Hogshead • Homer • House cord – a former U.S. unit of volume for stacked firewood • Kile • Koku • Lambda – an uncommon metric unit of volume discontinued with the introduction of the SI • London quarter • Lump of butter – used in the U.S. up to and possibly after of the American Revolution. It equaled "one well rounded tablespoon". • Masu • Metretes • Octave • Omer • Pau • Peck – the name of two different units of volume, one imperial and one U.S. Both equaled about 9 litres. • Puddee • Salt spoon – used in the U.S., up to and possibly after of the American Revolution. Four salt spoons equaled one teaspoon. • Seah • Ser • Shipping ton – a unit of volume defined as • Stuck • Wineglass – used in the U.S., up to and possibly after of the American Revolution. One wineglass equaled cup. ==Other==

• Apothecaries' system • Atom (time) – a hypothetical unit of time used in the Middle Ages • Bahar – a unit of length in Iran, and was a unit of mass in Oman • Batman – mostly a unit of mass, but sometimes a unit of area • Demal – unit of concentration • Dimi (metric prefix) – a discontinued non-SI metric prefix for 10−4 • Einstein – unit of energy, and a unit of amount of substance • Fanega – a unit of dry volume, and a unit of area • Fresnel – a unit of frequency • Garce – a unit of dry volume in India, and a unit of mass in Sri Lanka • Hobbit – a unit of volume, or, more rarely, of weight • Kula – a unit of area in India, and mass in Morocco • Last – a unit of mass or volume • League – usually a unit of length, but sometimes a unit of area • Mache • Mesures usuelles • Perch – most commonly a unit of area, but sometimes a unit of length or volume • Pièze – a unit of pressure • Quibi – a unit of time equal to 10 minutes. First used in Quibi's own Super Bowl LIII advertising campaign, this word saw small amounts of ironic adoption. • Rood – a unit of area or length • Sack – originally a medieval unit of mass, equal to 26 stone (364 pounds, or about 165 kg). Since a unit of dry volume, equal to 24 imperial gallons (about 109 liters). • Schoenus – a unit of area or length • Scrupulum – a unit of area, mass, or time • Seam – a unit of mass or volume • Seer – a unit of mass or volume • Toise – a unit of area, length, or volume • Tub – usually a unit of mass, but sometimes a unit of volume • Uncia – an ancient Roman unit of length, mass, or volume • Wey – a unit of mass or volume • Winchester measure – a system of volume measurement ==See also==