Clove

Modern equivalent

7 pounds = 3.175 kilograms

An old English weight unit used for wool and cheese, representing half a stone.

The clove bridged small market purchases with heavy wholesale wool packs, allowing medieval merchants to calculate intermediate yields cleanly before scaling up to stone and hundredweight units.

Related units

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