Английская Википедия:Bag (unit)

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Bags have been used as standard measures for a variety of commodities which were actually supplied in bags or sacks. These include:

  • Cement is commonly sold in bags of 94 pounds weight, because this is about 1 cubic foot of powdered cement.[1]
  • Agricultural produce in England was sold in bags which varied in capacity depending on the place and the commodity. Examples include:
  • coffee = 60 kg
  • flour = 100 pounds
  • grapefruit = 40 pounds
  • rice = 100 pounds

The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition of "bag" as "A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity" and has quotations illustrating its use for hops in 1679, almonds in 1728 (where it is defined by weight as "about 3 Hundred Weight" i.e. Шаблон:Convert in Imperial units) and potatoes in 1845 (where it is a volume measure of "three bushels" - i.e. Шаблон:Convert).[4]

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