cranberry barrel

In the United States, a unit of capacity for cranberries, defined by Congress in 1915.¹ The cranberry barrel was to have:

• staves 28½ inches long, and no thicker than ¼ inch,
• heads 16¼ inches in diameter and 25¼ inches apart,
• a circumference at the bulge of 58½ inches.

The capacity is not specified in the act, but later regulations defined it as 5,826 cubic inches (approximately 95.471 liters).

1. March 4, 1915 c 168 §1, 38 Stat. 1186.

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