Measures and Weights
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The
Ah-il and Ah-ral:
are
measures used in the sale and use of cloth. "Cloth is measured in the ah-il, which is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and the ah-ral, which is ten ah-ils"---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 50 |
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The
Hort:
equivalent
to 1 1/4 inches
"The
hort is approximately and inch and a quarter in length" |
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The
Huda:
equivalent to five Tefa "A handful with five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six such handfuls constitute tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five such baskets constitute a huda"---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 46 |
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The
Gill:
used to measure liquids. "In a matter of perhaps two or three seconds, it had drawn perhaps a gill of liquid"--- Outlaw of Gor, pg 34 |
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The GOREAN FOOT "The Gorean foot, interestingly, is almost identical to the Earth foot. Both measures doubtless bear some distance relation to the length of the foot of an adult human male. The Gorean foot is, in my estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of its ten Horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give the Gorean foot length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure." --- Raiders of Gor Pages 127-128 |
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The
Pasang "The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor, equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile"---Tarnsman of Gor, pg 58 |
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The
Stone: the
basic unit of weight, equivalent to 4 Earth pounds.
"I
have calculated this from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based
on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds."---Raiders of Gor, pg
127 |
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The Tef: equivalent of a fistfull |
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The Tefa: equivalent to six Tefs |
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The
Weight:
equivalent
to 10 Stones
"A
given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit.
A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds."-Tribesmen of
Gor, p 37
" I
have calculated this from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based
on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds. A Weight is ten Stone"
-Raiders of Gor, pg 127 |