Assertion: round bushel | /r/HasProperty | halfe
Facets:
value: wide throughout
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: all His Majesties Subjects may know the Content of the Winchester Bushell whereunto this Act referrs, and that all Disputes and Differences about Measure may be prevented for the future, it is hereby declared that every round Bushel with a plain and even Bottom, being Eighteen Inches and a Halfe wide throughout, & Eight Inches deep, shall be esteemed a legal Winchester Bushel according to the Standard in His Majesty's Exchequer.
text: 18.5 Inches Diameter, and 8 Inches deep; for a Cylindrical Vessel of these Dimensions will contain 2150.42 solid Inches, which exceeding the Content of the Standard Bushel but 4.82 Inches, and there being no other convenient Dimensions, without counting for the hundredth Part of an Inch, that would come so near as these: It was enacted, in the Act for laying a Duty upon Malt, That every Round Bushel, with a plain and even Bottom, being eighteen Inches and a half Diameter thorughout, and eight Inches deep, shall be esteemed a legal Winchester-Bushel, according to the Standard in his Majesty's Exchequer.