vakka

Definitions

• A type of wooden container of varying size, made of bent thin board to make it strong and light, usually equipped with a close fitting cap.
• (by extension) Any roundish, voluminous container equipped with a cap.
• bushel
• (historical) A unit of dry volume used in Sweden (halvspann (halvspann) in Swedish) and Finland before introduction of metric system. There has been regional and temporal variation, but the 1665 regulation defined it so that it's equal to 36.64 liters, which is quite close to an imperial bushel (36.3687 l).