US Dry Pint (dry pt)

US customaryTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

One 64th of a US bushel (0.5506 L), larger than the liquid pint. Used for cherry tomatoes and berries.

1 US dry pint = 0.5506104714 liters (approximately).

1 US dry pint = 0.5506104714 liters

About the US dry pint

Pint comes from Old French pinte, possibly traced to a word meaning painted, which would point to marks painted inside a container to show its capacity. In the British North American colonies two separate gallon systems ran side by side, one derived from the 231 cubic inch wine gallon for liquids and one from the corn gallon, an eighth of the Winchester bushel, for grain and produce.

The US dry pint belongs to the second system. It is one 64th of the US bushel, which is fixed at 2,150.42 cubic inches, so a dry pint is about 33.6 cubic inches, or roughly 550.6 millilitres (0.5506 L as used here). It is also half a dry quart and a sixteenth of a peck. Because the liquid pint is only about 473 millilitres, the dry pint is some 16 percent larger.

Today the unit survives mainly on packaging. Blueberries and similar small fruit in the United States and Canada are sold in containers labelled 1 US dry pint, with a bilingual label giving 551 millilitres. Britain dropped both older gallons in 1824, so the imperial pint is a different, larger measure again.

Sources: Wikipedia: Pint; Wikipedia: Bushel

US Dry Pint conversion chart

1 US dry pint expressed in every other volume unit:

Unit1 US dry pint
Liters0.5506104714
Milliliters550.6104714
US Gallons0.1454558983
US Cups2.327294372
US Fluid Ounces18.61835498
Cubic Meters0.0005506104714
Cubic Centimeters550.6104714
US Quarts0.5818235931
US Pints1.163647186
US Tablespoons37.23670996
US Teaspoons111.7101299
Metric Cups2.202441885
Metric Tablespoons36.70736476
Metric Teaspoons110.1220943
Imperial Gallons0.1211173715
Imperial Pints0.9689389719
Imperial Fluid Ounces19.37877944
Cubic Inches33.6003125
Cubic Feet0.01944462529
Cubic Yards0.000720171307
Oil Barrels0.003463235673
Cubic Millimeters550,610.4714
Microliters550,610.4714
Centiliters55.06104714
Deciliters5.506104714
Hectoliters0.005506104714
Cubic Kilometers5.506104714×10⁻¹³
Australian Tablespoons27.53052357
US Legal Cups2.294210297
Imperial Quarts0.484469486
Cubic Miles1.320984771×10⁻¹³
Wine Bottles0.7341472951
Magnums0.3670736476
Jeroboams0.1835368238
Methuselahs0.09176841189
Nebuchadnezzars0.03670736476
US Gills4.654588745
US Fluid Drams148.9468398
US Minims8,936.81039
Jiggers12.41223665
Pinches1,787.362078
Dashes893.681039
Imperial Gills3.875755888
US Bushels0.015625
US Pecks0.0625
US Dry Quarts0.5
US Dry Barrels0.00476194905
US Liquid Barrels0.004617647564
UK Beer Barrels0.00336437143
Firkins0.01345748572
Kilderkins0.006728742861
Hogsheads (ale)0.002242914287
Tierces0.003463235673
Hogsheads (wine)0.002308823782
Puncheons0.001731617837
Butts (pipe)0.001154411891
Tuns0.0005772059455
Acre-feet4.463871738×10⁻⁷
Cords0.0001519111351
Board Feet0.2333355035
Cyathi12.1050241
Sextarii1.008752009
Congii0.1681253348
Modii0.06304700054
Amphorae0.02101566685
Omers0.250277487
Hin0.1501664922
Baths (biblical)0.0250277487
Homers0.00250277487
Gō3.052322105
Shō0.3052322105
Tō0.03052322105
Koku0.003052322105
Charkas4.476722634
Shtofs0.4476722634
Vedros0.04476722634

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