In UK and in US unit system there are some old measures of weight and capacity that survived in a few specialized areas, chiefly with regard to beer, wines, and spirits, and agricultural products, though today most are replaced by metric measures. The obsolete weight and capacity measures can be divided on:
- UK Units of Weight for Butter and Cheese
- UK Units for Beer, Wines, and Spirits
- UK Units of Weight for Coal
- UK Units for Clothes
- UK and US Hay and Straw Weights
- UK weight for wool
- US units of capacity used in food recipes
- US units of capcity for wine
- Modern UK and US dimensionless units for numbers of paper sheets
- Old UK and US dimnesionless units for numbers of paper sheets
- Old US units for measuring the volume of stacked firewood
- UK and US dimnsionless counting units
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