The lachter (also Berglachter) was a common unit of length used in the mining industry in Europe, usually to measure depth, tunnel driving and the size of mining fields; it was also used for contract work. In most German-speaking mining fields it was the most important unit of length.
The lachter (also Berglachter) was a common unit of length used in the mining industry in Europe, usually to measure depth, tunnel driving and the size of mining fields; it was also used for contract work. In most German-speaking mining fields it was the most important unit of length.
A lachter was roughly equal to the amount which a man could contain within his outstretched arms. It was thus similar to the klafter (ca. ), but was usually rather larger.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).