Convert barleycorn to quarter (cloth)
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 quarter (cloth):
Quarter is a unit of length equal to 1/4 yard or 22.86 centimeters. This unit was used to measure cloth in medieval England.