01-04-2011, 01:14 AM
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MURICAN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 5,136
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Historically, a hogshead varied in size, but today in the United States is most commonly 63 U.S. gallons (7 buttkins; ca. 238.5 litres), so a butt is now 126 U.S. gallons, or about 104 imperial gallons.
However, in the United Kingdom a hogshead is 3 kilderkins, a kilderkin is 2 firkins, and a firkin is 9 gallons, making the pipe 108 gallons.
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WTF?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(volume)
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