vat

1

In the Netherlands, 19^th – 20^th centuries, a legal measure of capacity, = 100 liters. One vat = 100 litrons or kannen = 1000 matjes or verres. (United Nations, 1966). It had the same value in Belgium.

2

In Holland and Belgium, various units used in freighting of ships:

Locale	Equivalents	Commodities	liters
		milk	29
Amsterdam	= 717 mengels	olive oil	Doursther: 853.4 Simmonds: 1024.9
	= 4 barriques	wine	Doursther: 914.4 Simmonds: 1098.2
	a type of ship ton based on volume		= 40 cubic feet
	a type of ship ton based on weight

3

In Brussels, a unit of dry capacity used for cinders, about 50.89 liters, equal to the unit called the mesure used for cinders in Louvain and Diest.

4

In England, 15^th century? – abolished 1835, a unit of dry capacity used for coal, about 415.15 liters. Also spelled vatt. “The London chaldron was usually defined as four vatts ‘ringed and heaped’.”¹

1. Connor, page 181.