An Anker (usually anglicized as ''Anchor'') was a Dutch unit of capacity for wine or brandy equal to 10 US gallons that was used as a standard liquid measurement.
It was most commonly used in Colonial times in New York and New Jersey, thanks to the earlier Dutch settlement of
New Amsterdam
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(later New York City).
Many European countries had a different measurement of this unit that varied from 9 to 11 US gallons
quivalent to 7.5 to 9.25 Imperial gallons or 34 to 42 Liters["Anker, a small cask or runlet containing 8 1/3 mperialgallons, which in ]this country
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is now obsolete. The anker is still, however, a common liquid measure in many of the Continental states, varying from 7½ to 9¼ mperialgallons." - Simmonds, ''The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms, Moneys, Weights, and Measures of all Countries'' (1892), pg. 12
Conversion
1 Anker ≡ 10 US gallons
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1 Anker ≡ 0.03785411784 m
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Units of volume
Customary units of measurement
Wine terminology