See also vasseau.
In the Netherlands, 19ᵗʰ – 20ᵗʰ 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.
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 |
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.
In England, 15ᵗʰ 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.
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