leap

1

In parts of England, ? – 18^th century, a unit of dry capacity = 4 gallons.

sources

The words Leap and Lib in Sussex do now signifie the measure of half a bushel, or four gallons.

White Kennett.
A Glossary to explain the original, the acceptation, and obsoleteness of Words and Phrases, and to shew…
London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, Shoe-Lane, and sold by J. and A. Arch, Cornhill, 1816.
Page 129, under "Seed-cod".
The first edition appeared in 1695, as part of Parochial Antiquities attempted….

LEAP, or Lip; signifies half a bushel, from whence comes a Seed-leap.

Worlidge, 1704.

2

In Wales, before the 19^th century, a unit of length, = 6 feet 9 inches.¹ In the 10^th century Laws of Howell, it is 9 feet.²

1. Second Report… (1820), page 21.

2. See the source note below.

Sources

V. Ar messur hunnu a uessurus Dywynwal urth [e] gronẏn heẏd: trẏ hẏt [y] gronẏn heẏd ẏnẏ uoduet [a] teẏr moduet ẏn llet [y] palẏw trẏ llet [y] palẏw ẏnẏ troetued, trẏ troeduet ẏnẏ cam, trẏ cham ẏnẏ neẏt trẏ neẏt ẏnẏ tẏr, sew ẏu ẏ tẏr/ o Gẏmraec newẏd gron, a mẏl or tẏr yu/ [e] mẏlltẏr. Ac or messur hunno [yd] ẏdẏs ẏn arueru [ema] etwa./

5. And that measure Dyvnwal measured by a barley corn: three lengths of a barley corn in the inch; three inches in the palm breadth; three palm breadths in the foot; three feet in the pace; three paces in the leap; three leaps in a land (the land, in modern Welsh, is called a ridge); and a thousand of the lands is a mile. And that measure we still use here.

The Commissioners of the Public Records of the Kingdom.
Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales; Comprising Laws Supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good, Modified by subsequent regulations under the Native Princes Prior to the Conquest by Edward the First: and anomalous Laws, Consisting Principally of Institutions which by the Statute of Ruddlan were admitted to continue in force: With an English Translation of the Welsh Text. to which are added A Few Latin Transcripts, containing digests of the Welsh laws, principally of the Dimetian Code. With Indexes and Glossary. Volume I.
London: Printed by Command of His Late Majesty King William IV, 1841.
Pages 184-185.