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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 (p 84) 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 (p 256) states that the nail was originally the distance from the thumbnail to the joint at the base of the thumb, or alternately, from the end of the middle finger to the second joint.

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  • Clou (unité) (fr)
  • ネイル (単位) (ja)
  • Nail (unit) (en)
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  • Le clou (anglais : nail, allemand : Nagel) est une ancienne unité de longueur anglo-saxonne. Parfois, cette unité est mal traduite en français par « onglet ». Il était essentiellement utilisé dans la fabrication de vêtements. Un clou vaut 1⁄16 de yard, 1⁄4 de quart, soit 2,25 pouces ou 5,715 centimètres. * Portail du Royaume-Uni * Portail des sciences (fr)
  • ネイル (nail) は、イギリス・アメリカの古い単位。いくつかの単位の1/16を指す。中でも、1/16ヤードを指すことが多い。 * 長さの単位。1ネイル = 1/16ヤード = 2¼インチ = 5.715センチメートル。 * 長さの単位。1ネイル = 1/16フィート = 1ディジット = ¾インチ = 1.905センチメートル。 * 面積の単位。1ネイル = 1/16エーカー = 252.9285264平方メートル。 * 布の質量の単位。1ネイル = 1クローヴ = 1/16英ハンドレッドウェイト = 7ポンド = 3.17514659キログラム。 (ja)
  • 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 (p 84) 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 (p 256) states that the nail was originally the distance from the thumbnail to the joint at the base of the thumb, or alternately, from the end of the middle finger to the second joint. (en)
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  • Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of (en)
  • Oh, monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, (en)
  • Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou:― (en)
  • Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail (en)
  • thread! (en)
  • II. ...for every Half a Quarter the Three Quarters Yard and Nail plain Cloth shall exceed the said Breadths, shall forfeit the Sum of for Five Shillings Sterling... (en)
  • VI. For reformation whereof, be it enacted That from and after the first day of April next coming every of the said cottons being sufficiently milled or thicked, clean scoured, well wrought and fully dried, shall weigh twenty-one pounds at the least and shall contain in length twenty-one goads, or twenty-goads at the least, and in breadth at the most three quarters of the yard, or within one nail of three quarters of the yard at the least: And that every of the said frizes or rugs being thicked and fully dried shall weigh forty-four pounds at the least and shall contain in length betwixt thirty five-yards and thirty-seven yards, and shall contain in breadth at the most three quarters of the yard, or within one nail of three quarters at the least, and not to be strained upon the tentors above one nail in breadth. (en)
  • I. ...shall be made full Yard and Nail, or full Three Quarters of a Yard and Nail, that when whitened it may be full Yard or full Three Quarters of a Yard in Breadth... (en)
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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 (p 84) 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 (p 256) states that the nail was originally the distance from the thumbnail to the joint at the base of the thumb, or alternately, from the end of the middle finger to the second joint. An archaic usage of the term nail is as a sixteenth of a (long) hundredweight for mass, or 1 clove of 7 pound avoirdupois (3.175 kg). (en)
  • Le clou (anglais : nail, allemand : Nagel) est une ancienne unité de longueur anglo-saxonne. Parfois, cette unité est mal traduite en français par « onglet ». Il était essentiellement utilisé dans la fabrication de vêtements. Un clou vaut 1⁄16 de yard, 1⁄4 de quart, soit 2,25 pouces ou 5,715 centimètres. * Portail du Royaume-Uni * Portail des sciences (fr)
  • ネイル (nail) は、イギリス・アメリカの古い単位。いくつかの単位の1/16を指す。中でも、1/16ヤードを指すことが多い。 * 長さの単位。1ネイル = 1/16ヤード = 2¼インチ = 5.715センチメートル。 * 長さの単位。1ネイル = 1/16フィート = 1ディジット = ¾インチ = 1.905センチメートル。 * 面積の単位。1ネイル = 1/16エーカー = 252.9285264平方メートル。 * 布の質量の単位。1ネイル = 1クローヴ = 1/16英ハンドレッドウェイト = 7ポンド = 3.17514659キログラム。 (ja)
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