A seam is an obsolete

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in the United Kingdom The ''

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'' includes definitions of a seam as: * of sand * of apples * of grain * of glass (or in the 14th century) * a cart-load, sometimes of a specified amount such as of straw or of hay or manure. Cardarelli asserts that it was equal to .

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