admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spitalfields Weavers have extremely small heads, 6-1/2, 6-5/8, 6-3/4, being the prevailing admeasurement.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various
I admire the exact admeasurement of my niece in your mother’s letter—O! the little span-long elf.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
The middle term for the rest of France is about nine hundred inhabitants to the same admeasurement.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The dimensions are so variously stated, owing largely to difference of opinion as to what should be embraced within the admeasurement, that we are at a loss how to give them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
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