Measurements
Distance

--Pasang--
"The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor, equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile."

Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 58

--Gorean Foot--
"The Gorean foot is, in my estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of its ten horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long."

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 127

--Hort--
"The hort is approximately and inch and a quarter in length."

Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 49

-- Ah-il and Ah-ral --
"Cloth is measured in the ah-il, which is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and the ah-ral, which is ten ah-ils."

Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 50

Measurements
Volume
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-- Gill --
"As I tore the thing ((a leech plant)) from my leg, glad that the sting had not been that of the venomous ost, the three hurtling moons of Gor broke from the dark cover of the clouds. I held the quivering plant up. Then I twisted it apart. Already my blood, black in the silvery night, mixed with the juices of the plant, stained the stem even to the roots. In a matter of perhaps two or three seconds, it had drawn perhaps a gill of liquid."

Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 34 / Chapter 4, Paragraph 3

-- Tef, Tefa and Huda --
"A handful with the five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six such handfuls constitute a tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five such baskets constitute a huda."

Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 11

Measurements
Weight
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-- Stone --
"The five ships, it might be added, must be of at least medium class. In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks. I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four earth pounds. A Weight is ten Stone. A medium-class round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight. The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities. The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar. Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sadar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city might test their own standard "Stone" against it. The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was admininstered by agents of the Council of Captains."

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 127 / Chapter 10, Paragraph 11

-- Weight --
"I have calculated this from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds. A Weight is ten Stone."

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 127

"A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds."

Book 10, Tribemen of Gor, page 37

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