Bucket (unit)
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A bucket was an imperial unit
of liquid volume
, equivalent to four gallon
s or 18.18436 litre
s. It is thus equivalent in size to the dry unit kenning
. The unit was one of the less-common ones and has been outlawed for use in trade for a long time.
See also: Conversion of units
, U.S. customary units, bucket
Imperial unit
The system of imperial units or the imperial system is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced. The system came into official use across the British Empire...
of liquid volume
Volume
Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by some closed boundary, for example, the space that a substance or shape occupies or contains....
, equivalent to four gallon
Gallon
The gallon is a measure of volume. Historically it has had many different definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon which is used in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States liquid gallon and the lesser used United States dry...
s or 18.18436 litre
Litre
pic|200px|right|thumb|One litre is equivalent to this cubeEach side is 10 cm1 litre water = 1 kilogram water The litre is a metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre , to 1,000 cubic centimetres , and to 1/1,000 cubic metre...
s. It is thus equivalent in size to the dry unit kenning
Kenning (disambiguation)
Kenning may refer to:* Kenning, a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry* Kenning , an obsolete unit of dry measure in the Imperial systemPeople with the surname Kenning:...
. The unit was one of the less-common ones and has been outlawed for use in trade for a long time.
See also: Conversion of units
Conversion of units
Conversion of units is the conversion between different units of measurement for the same quantity, typically through multiplicative conversion factors.- Process :...
, U.S. customary units, bucket
Bucket
A bucket, also called a pail, is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. A pail can have an open top or can have a lid....