At 11:01 21/08/2008, JJ GREENWOOD wrote:
>the same unit was used for timber with 10 fathoms to the ton; it was
>only used for cord wood
OED backs this up - wood measure a fathom square by whatever was the
length of the wood - a variable measure in terms of the amount of
wood you delivered/received by that measure - a bit like the square
fathom across the width of the vein, in mining.
Peter
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