in general, signifies the burden or load of a ship. It signifies also a certain measure of fish, corn, wool, leather, &c. A last of codfish, white herrings, meal, and ashes for soap, is twelves barrels; of corn or rape-seed, ten quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels; of red herrings, twenty casks; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty Dickens; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of stock fish, one thousand; of flax or feathers, 1700lb.