In Denmark, ? — 18ᵗʰ century, a unit of mass or capacity, depending on the commodity. It represents a cart-load.
bondelæs -- farmer's cart-load.
borgerlæs -- town cart-load.
Sources | Period | mass of 1 læs in lispund | |
---|---|---|---|
large | small | ||
decrees | 1716-1727 | 30 | |
army fodder purchases | 1789-1792 | 32 | |
estate account books | 1745-1799 | 32 | |
chief of police, Copenhagen | 1802 | 36 | 24 |
in travers | |||
3 | |||
10 |
Lastly, in some account books “læs” appears to have been used as an abbreviation for “læst”.
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