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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 toise:
Toise is a traditional French unit of distance introduced by Charlemagne in 790. The toise is equal to six French feet (pieds). Based on the "pied du roi", the toise equals to about 1.949 meters.
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