Seam 03
Seam 03 :
A traditional unit of volume. A seam of grain was 8 bushels: this would be equivalent to 290.95 liters based on the British Imperial bushel, or 281.91 liters based on the older U.S bushel. Take your pick. The Anglo-Saxon word "seam" meant the load of a pack animal. (The same word also came to mean the stitching of the packsaddle, and that's the origin of our other uses of the word today.) We don't know how large the seam was in Saxon times, but it was equal to 8 bushels at least by the end of the thirteenth century. The seam continued in use to the early nineteenth century, but in later years it was more often called a quarter [5]. The unit was sometimes called the soam
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