In Cornwall, a measure of capacity for tin ore, about a half gallon.
They measure their blacke Tynne, by the Gill, the Topliffe, the Dish and the Foote, which containeth a pint, a pottel, a gallon, and towards two gallons.
Richard Carew.
The Survey of Cornwall,...
London: Printed for B. Law in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J. Hewett, at Penzance, 1769.
Page 14.
Copyright © 2009 Sizes, Inc. All rights reserved.
Last revised: 6 July 2009.