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Seam (unit)
A
seam
is an
obsolete
unit of volume
or
mass
in
the United Kingdom
The
Oxford
English Dictionary
includes
definitions
of a seam as:
of
sand
of
apples
of
grain
of
glass
a cart-load, sometimes of a specified
amount
such as of
straw
or of
hay
or manure.
Cardarelli
asserts that it was
equal to
.