Dry gallon measure of approximately the same size, though the dry gallon is a bit bigger. 1 dry gallon ≈ 1.163 647 fluid gallons Its implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches in diameter and 8 inches in depth. That made the dry gallon a non-terminating number of cubic inches, an irrational number whose value with the first six digits after the decimal point was 268.802521 ( cubic inches ≈ ). The bushel was later defined to be exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, making the dry gallon exactly
Gallon word is unknown. The gallon originated as the base of systems for measuring wine, and beer in England. The sizes of gallon used in these two systems were different from each other: the first was based on the wine gallon (equal in size to the US gallon), and the second on either the ale gallon or the larger imperial gallon. By the end of the 18th century, three definitions of the gallon were in common use: The "corn" or "dry gallon" was used in the United States until recently for grain and other dry commodities. It is one-eighth of the