Convert barleycorn to pace (great or geometrical)
Selected category: length.
Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.
Definition and details for pace (great or geometrical):
Pace (great or geometrical) is a traditional unit of length equal to the distance between two successive falls of the same foot. In English speaking countries one pace is defined to be exactly 5 feet or 152.4 centimeters.