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
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
This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Of the former there can be no admeasurement, excepting by its effect, which is recollection: its duration can be well ascertained.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John
If the cubit be taken as eighteen inches, she was 450 feet long, 75 in breadth, and 45 in depth, whilst her tonnage, according to the present system of admeasurement, would be about 15,000 tons.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
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