Stuck (unit)

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German wine casks: on the right is a Stückfass of 1400 L

Stuck was a form occasionally found in English writing as a corruption of the German "Stück", itself an abbreviation of Stückfass (formerly written Stückfaß), referring to the volume of a wine cask of around 1000-1200 litres.[1] It was normally used in reference to German wine production.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Adelung, Johann Christoph (1801). Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart. Vol. 4.. Leipzig. pp. 466–467. https://lexika.digitale-sammlungen.de/adelung/lemma/bsb00009134_2_3_3507. 
  2. ↑ Cardarelli, François (2003). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. London: Springer. pp. 46. ISBN 978-1-4471-1122-1. https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofs0000card. 
  3. ↑ Gyllenbok, Jan (2018). Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures. 3. Birkhäuser. pp. 2370. ISBN 9783319667126. https://books.google.com/books?id=IJJVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2370. 
  4. ↑ Jerrard, H. G. (1986). A Dictionary of Scientific Units: Including dimensionless numbers and scales. Springer Science & Business. pp. 178. ISBN 9789401705714. https://books.google.com/books?id=r2wyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA178. 
  5. ↑ "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES - NOW AND THEN.". http://orrnamestudy.com/wtsmsrs.htm. 




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