Dry measures are units of volume used to measure bulk commodities which are not liquid. They are typically used in agriculture, agronomy, and commodity markets to measure grain, dried beans, and dried and fresh fruit (e.g. a peck of apples is a retail unit); formerly also salt pork and fish. They are also used in fishing for clams, crabs, etc. and formerly for many other substances (e.g. coal, cement, lime) which were typically shipped and delivered in a standardized container such as a barrel. This topic differs from units of measurement, which see. ... Volume, also called capacity, is a quantification of how much space an object occupies. ... ... This article is in need of attention. ... The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. ... Green beans a plenty Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed. ... Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ... Groups Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded) water-dwelling... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... Maxima clam (Tridacna maxima) Clams are shelled marine or freshwater molluscs belonging to the class Bivalvia. ... Sections Dromiacea Raninoida Heterotremata Thoracotremata The term crab is often applied to several different groups of short (nose to tail) decapod crustaceans with thick exoskeletons, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial...

They are often confused or conflated with units of mass, assuming a nominal density, and indeed many units of dry measure are now largely units of mass (see bushel). Mass is a property of physical objects that, roughly speaking, measures the amount of matter they contain. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... A bushel is a unit of volume, used (with somewhat different definitions) in the systems of Imperial units and U.S. customary units. ...

Metric units

In the original metric system, the unit of dry volume was the stere, but this is not part of the modern metric system; the liter and the cubic meter (m³) are now used. However, the stere is still widely used for firewood. The International System of Units (symbol: SI) (for the French phrase Syst me International dUnit s) is the most widely used system of units. ... The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ... The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name Système International dUnités) is the modern form of the metric system. ... The litre (or liter in US) is a metric unit of volume. ... The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ... Wood burning is the largest current use of biomass derived energy. ...

Imperial and U.S. customary units

In Imperial and U.S. customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. The Imperial units are an irregularly standardized system of units that have been used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the Commonwealth countries. ... U.S. customary units, commonly known in the United States as English units or standard units, are units of measurement that are currently used in the U.S., in some cases alongside units from SI (the International System of Units—the modern metric system). ... A hogshead is a large cask of liquid (less often, of a food commodity). ... The gallon (abbr. ... A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. ... The pint is a unit of volume. ... A bushel is a unit of volume, used (with somewhat different definitions) in the systems of Imperial units and U.S. customary units. ... A peck is an Imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints. ...

Many of the units are associated with particular goods, so for instance the dry hogshead has been used for sugar and for tobacco and the peck for apples. There are also special measures for special goods, such as the cord of wood, the sack, the bale of cotton, the box of fruit, etc. The cord is a unit of dry volume used in the United States to measure firewood. ... Bale can refer to any of the following: Places Bâle, the French name for the city of Basel The town Bale in Croatia the Bale Province, Burkina Faso in Burkina Faso the former Bale Province, Ethiopia in Ethiopia People Christian Bale, an actor Dr. Edward Turner Bale This is...

Because it is difficult to measure actual volume and easy to measure mass, many of these units are now also defined as units of mass, specific to each commodity, so a bushel of apples is a different weight from a bushel of wheat (weighed at a specific moisture level). Indeed, the bushel, the best-known unit of dry measure because it is the quoted unit in commodity markets, is in fact a unit of mass in those contexts. This article is in need of attention. ...

Conversely, the ton used in specifying tonnage and in freight calculations is often a volume measurement rather than a mass measurement. The word ton or tonne is derived from the Old English tunne, and ultimately from the Old French tonne, and referred originally to a large cask with a capacity of 252 wine gallons, which holds approximately 2100 pounds of water. ... Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo capacity of a ship. ...

In U.S. cooking, dry and liquid measures are the same: the cup, the tablespoon, the teaspoon. Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ... The cup is a unit of measurement for volume, used in cooking recipes in several countries. ... This tablespoon has a capacity of about 1 tbsp. ... Teaspoon and sugar A teaspoon is a small spoon that can hold about 5 milliliters of liquid. ...

Struck and heaped measurement

The volume of bulk goods is usually measured by filling a standard container, so the containers' names and the units' names are often the same, and indeed both are called "measures". Normally, a level or struck measure is assumed, with the excess being swept off level ("struck") with the measure's brim—the stick used for this is called a "strickle". Sometimes heaped or heaping measures are used, with the commodity heaped in a cone above the measure.

Imperial/U.S. units of dry measure

• 1 pint (pt) ≈ 550.610 mL
• 1 quart (qt) = 2 pt ≈ 1.101 L
• 1 gallon (gal) = 4 qt = 268.8025 in³ = 4.404 842 803 2 L
• 1 peck (pk) = 8 qt = 2 gal ≈ 8.81 L
• 1 bushel (bu) = 2150.42 cu in = 4 pk ≈ 35.239 L