cubic measure

Some believe the origin was the double cubit, others believe that it originated from cubic measure.

The other argument is that nine yards is a cubic measure, refers to the volume of a cement mixer.

She assented, and Donal gave them a lesson in cubic measure and content.

Johnny was paid on fat homage the cubic measure of rock broken and taken out of his stope.

Some believe they evolved from cubic measures; others believe they were simple proportions or multiples of the cubit.

Here is an easy three-point guide to sidestepping common "mythematics" traps: 1 Be careful in conversions, don't muddle metric and imperial, or linear, square and cubic measures.

Some believe it derived from the double cubit, or that it originated from cubic measure, others from its near equivalents, such as the length of a stride or pace.

Also, with no common denominator for fixing rates, different criteria were used for measuring performance - tonnage, yardage, cubic measures, number of operations completed, etc. - and so contradictory interests developed.

It contained 2,000 baths (cubic measures), for the world will sustain him who keeps the Torah, which was created 2,000 years before the world (Midrash Tadshe ii., ed.