Stuck (unit)

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German wine casks: on the right is a Stückfass of 1400 L

Stuck was a form occasionally found in English writing as a corruption of the German "Stück", itself an abbreviation of Stückfass (formerly written Stückfaß), referring to the volume of a wine cask of around 1000-1200 litres.[1] It was normally used in reference to German wine production.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Adelung, Johann Christoph (1801). Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart. Vol. 4. Leipzig. pp. 466–467.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4471-1122-1
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  3. ISBN 9783319667126
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  4. ISBN 9789401705714
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  5. ^ "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES - NOW AND THEN". orrnamestudy.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.


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