Nail (Unit)

A nail, when used as a unit, is usually one sixteenth of a certain base unit. In English usage the most common base units were the foot and the yard for length, the acre for area and the (long) hundredweight for mass.
Base unit Equivalent Metric
foot 1digit = 1.905cm
yard 21/4inches = 5.715cm
acre 1/4rood = 252.9285264m2
hundredweight 1clove = 7pounds = 3.17514659kg
(Metric sizes calculated for most common values of the base units today.)

 

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