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armament accessory: measure, powder
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textile working t&e: tape measure
water transport: service vessel: storeship
water transport: steam vessel
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weight, spring
weights & measures t&e: balance(part: beam)
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weights & measures t&e: balance, currency
weights & measures t&e: balance, currency(coin tester)
weights & measures t&e: balance, hand
weights & measures t&e: balance, letter
weights & measures t&e: balance, medicine
weights & measures t&e: bob, plumb
weights & measures t&e: bob, plumb(two)
weights & measures t&e: calculating machine
weights & measures t&e: chain, surveyor's
weights & measures t&e: clinometer((For measuring angle of heel) combined roll recorder)
weights & measures t&e: clinometer(For measuring angle of heel)
weights & measures t&e: comparator, quartz
weights & measures t&e: computing instrument: plain scale
weights & measures t&e: dividers(cooper's)
weights & measures t&e: gauge, marking(shipwrights)
weights & measures t&e: measure
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 gallon)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 pint)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(gallon)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(pint)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(quart)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1 1/2 gills)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1/2 gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(centilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(decilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(demi-decilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measurement: length, standards of
weights & measures t&e: measurer, map
weights & measures t&e: measuring instrument(For measuring standing timber)
weights & measures t&e: rod, gauging(For measuring gallons of wine & beer)
weights & measures t&e: rule(shipwrights)
weights & measures t&e: rule, gunner's folding
weights & measures t&e: rule, timber(shipwrights)
weights & measures t&e: ruler
weights & measures t&e: samples, sea-bed
weights & measures t&e: sampling stick, fish meal
weights & measures t&e: scale, sizing(for measuring wooden planks or a shoemakers measure.)
weights & measures t&e: scale, weighing
weights & measures t&e: scales
weights & measures t&e: telescope component: micrometer
weights & measures t&e: telescope component: micrometer head
weights & measures t&e: weight, spring(shipwrights)
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Avery, W & T
Bryan Corcaran Ltd
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Captain Edye
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Dring & Fage
Gaskell & Chambers Ltd
L. S. Starrett Co.
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
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Discovery (1873)
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Beaumont, Lewis Anthony
Bigg, A
British and Commonwealth Shipping Co Ltd
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
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Tipshaft, E
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British India spirit measure, silver with hallmarks (Spirit measure)
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