admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
Example Sentences
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aristotle’s admeasurement of beds was six feet; and certainly the doorways of ancient edifices by no means indicated taller inmates than our present generation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
The act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
We are thus particular in her admeasurement, because it materially influenced the decision on her complaint.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John
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