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
He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade—their mortality in it—Construction and admeasurement of Slave-ships—Difficulty of procuring evidence—Cases of Gardiner and Arnold CHAP.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Thomas Clarkson
He knows by actual admeasurement that some of them are much larger than the planet he occupies.
From Key to the Science of Theology by Parley P. Pratt
The phenomenon had not been explained—the instruments had not yet been invented which could fathom its depths, or take the admeasurement at the meridian.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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