Convert cable (International) to barleycorn
Selected category: length.
Definition and details for cable (International):
Cable length or cable's length is a nautical unit of length equal to 1/10 nautical mile or 185.2 meters. This unit was named cable because of the length of a ship's anchor cable in the age of sail.
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.