Hogsheads (wine) to Milliliters (hhd to mL)

1 hogshead (wine) equals 238,480.9424 milliliters (rounded).

1 hogshead (wine) = 238,480.9424 milliliters

How to convert hogsheads (wine) to milliliters

To convert hogsheads (wine) to milliliters, multiply the number of hogsheads (wine) by 238,480.9424. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply milliliters by 0.00000419320718 (rounded).

milliliters = hogsheads (wine) × 238,480.9424

Example: 10 hogsheads (wine) = 2,384,809.424 milliliters.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Hogshead (wine) (hhd)

US customaryHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

63 US gallons (238.48 L), a quarter of a wine tun. A cask size for wine; tobacco hogsheads were a separate, larger size.

Philologists link the odd name to Germanic cask terms such as Dutch oxhooft and Danish oxehoved, literally an ox head, which English speakers may have bent into hogshead. An act of 1423 first tried to standardise the cask, but sizes still varied by product and place for centuries afterwards.

For wine the figure is 63 US wine gallons, or 52.5 imperial gallons, close to 238.5 litres (238.48 L as used here). It is a quarter of a tun and three quarters of a puncheon, and sits between the tierce at 42 gallons and the butt at 126. Other trades used different sizes: beer hogsheads of 54 gallons, fortified wines of 46 to 57 imperial gallons, and tobacco hogsheads of at least 550 litres.

Hogsheads carried far more than wine. Colonial Virginia shipped tobacco in them, British West Indies sugar averaged about 813 kilograms per cask, and Louisiana counted sugar by the hogshead for most of the nineteenth century. Whisky is typically matured in hogshead casks of about 250 litres.

1 hogshead (wine) = 238.4809424 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hogshead; Wikipedia: Tun (unit)

Milliliter (mL)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a liter, or exactly 1 cubic centimeter. Used for medicine, cooking and small containers.

Milliliters inherit everything from the liter, since the prefix simply means one thousandth. Because the liter is a cubic decimeter, a milliliter works out to exactly one cubic centimeter, a coincidence the metric system built in on purpose so that volume, length and mass interlock. One milliliter of water has a mass of about one gram, so a dosing syringe, a kitchen scale and a measuring jug can all be checked against one another.

Today milliliters dominate wherever small amounts must be measured precisely: medicine, flavorings, perfume, shampoo and the fine print on drink labels. Spelling is a mild regional split, with uppercase mL preferred in the United States, Canada and Australia and lowercase ml common in the UK and Europe. For scale, a US teaspoon is just under 5 mL, a US tablespoon is about 14.8 mL, and the US nutrition-label cup is exactly 240 mL, so one such cup is 240 of these tiny units.

1 milliliter = 0.001 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

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