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
If we investigate the standards of admeasurement, we find that many have been derived from the human body, and more especially from its operative instrument, the hand.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John
Blumenbach considered that the most important admeasurement of the skull was derivable from the shape and size of the oval, seen when the skull was viewed from above, looking vertically down upon it.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
In the reign of Henry V. the trade had become of such importance that a special Act was passed providing for the admeasurement of ships and barges employed in the coal trade.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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