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pack

1

In Great Britain, ? – 18ᵗʰ century, a unit of mass used in the wool trade.

Worlidge.

James Britten.
Old Country and Farming Words.
English Dialect Society, number 30.
London: Trübner and Co., 1880.

Page 173. Britten's sources were Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture (1863) and the Second Report of the Commissioners (1820).

2

In Germany, a unit of count used for sheets of paper, = 150,000 sheets. See the table at Ries.

Nelkenbrecher.

3

In Great Britain, a unit of count for teazles, the thistle-like heads used in making wool cloth. Generally 1 pack = 9000 heads of kings or = 20,000 heads of middlings.²

In Gloucestershire:²

In Yorkshire, North Riding: 1 pack = 1350 bunches of 10 each, = 13,500.²

In Essex, 1 staff = 50 bunches or gleans = 1250 teazles.²

1. James Britten.
Old Country and Farming Words.
English Dialect Society, number 30.
London: Trübner and Co., 1880.

Page 173.

2. Second Report (1820).  Page 25, 32.

4

In Orkney, 12ᵗʰ century? – 18ᵗʰ century?, a unit of length used for the woolen cloth called wadmæl, = 10 gudlings = 60 cuttels. From Norse packi.¹

1. David Balfour.
Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland from Original Documents.
Edinburgh, 1859.
Page 127.

sources

PACK, s. An old Norse measure of quantity formerly used in Orkney : is now represented by the terms piece and roll. A pack of wadmœl contained 10 gudlings, and each gudling contained 6 cuttels or Scotch ells.

David Donaldson.
Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary.
Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1887.

5

In the United States, 20ᵗʰ – 21^st centuries, a quantity of cigarettes in paper packaging, = 20 cigarettes, a legal minimum. A few packs are made with 25, often for export to Canada or Australia, where 25 is the usual quantity.

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