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Rundlet

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The rundlet is an archaic unit-like size of wine casks once used in Britain. It was equivalent to about 68 litres. It used to be defined as 18 wine gallons—one of several gallons then in use—before the adoption of the imperial system in 1824, afterwards it was 15 imperial gallons, which became the universal English base unit of volume in the British realm.

English wine cask units[1]
gallon rundlet barrel tierce hogshead puncheon, tertian pipe, butt tun
1 tun
1 2 pipes, butts
1 1 1&fras1;2 3 puncheons, tertians
1 1 1&fras1;3 2 4 hogsheads
1 1 1&fras1;2 2 3 6 tierces
1 1 1&fras1;3 2 2 2&fras1;3 4 8 barrels
1 1 3&fras1;4 2 1&fras1;3 3 1&fras1;2 4 2&fras1;3 7 14 rundlets
1 18 31 1&fras1;2 42 63 84 126 252 gallons (wine)
3.785 68.14 119.24 158.99 238.48 317.97 476.96 953.92 litres
1 15 26 1&fras1;4 35 52 1&fras1;2 70 105 210 gallons (imperial)
4.546 68.19 119.3 159.1 238.7 318.2 477.3 954.7 litres

References

  1. ^ "wine barrel". Sizes. 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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