Use this free online calculator to convert Ell [Scotland] to Gry instantly. This all length conversions conversion tool provides accurate results for all your measurement needs.

Quick Reference

1 Ell [Scotland] = 4464.56 Gry

1 Gry = 2.240e-4 Ell [Scotland]

Ell [Scotland] to Gry Conversion Formula

To convert Ell [Scotland] to Gry, multiply by 4464.56.

Gry = Ell [Scotland] × 4464.56

Ell [Scotland] = Gry × 2.240e-4

To convert Gry back to Ell [Scotland], divide by 4464.56 (or multiply by 2.240e-4).

About These Units

About Ell [Scotland]

See the English El (or Ell). This Scottish length is shorter than the English El. It may reflect an old practice of cloth merchants in giving an extra inch with each yard, to allow for any irregular cutting at the ends of the piece. However, the English cloth ell is definitely longer than the yard; it seems to be the distance from the shoulder to the fingers of the opposite hand. This reflects a practice of cloth merchants of holding the cloth at the shoulder with one hand and pulling the piece through with the opposite hand. This cloth ell was used with a similar length in France, where it was called the aune. The Dutch el and German elle are a little more than half the English ell; they may represent "arms-length" units like the Italian braccio, the Russian sadzhen, and the Turkish pik

About Gry

The gry is a proposed unit of distance in the English traditional system. The name was first used in June 1679 by the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) as a unit equal to 0.001 foot, 0.01 inch, or 0.1 line in a decimalized distance system. (Thomas Jefferson, who was very familiar with Lockes writings, later proposed a similar system in the U.S., but he called 0.001 foot a point rather than a gry.) In 1813, the gry was revived in another decimal measurement scheme in Britain. All these ideas failed, but the gry had some limited use in the nineteenth century as a unit equal to 0.1 line or 1/120 inch (0.211 667 millimeter). Long forgotten, the gry recently came back into the limelight in connection with a puzzle, circulating on the Internet, which asked for three English words ending in -gry. The word "gry" is from the ancient Greek, where it meant "a trifling amount".

Ell [Scotland] to Gry Conversion Table

Ell [Scotland]	Gry	Gry	Ell [Scotland]
0.1	446.4560	0.1	2.240e-5
0.5	2232.28	0.5	1.120e-4
1	4464.56	1	2.240e-4
2	8929.12	2	4.480e-4
5	22322.80	5	1.120e-3
10	44645.60	10	2.240e-3
20	89291.20	20	4.480e-3
25	111614.00	25	5.600e-3
50	223227.99	50	0.011199
100	446455.99	100	0.022399
250	1116139.97	250	0.055997
500	2232279.95	500	0.111993
1000	4464559.90	1000	0.223986

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