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
But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
Of course, he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel
The vessel, then, in the plate is the vessel now mentioned, and the following is her admeasurement as given in by Captain Parrey.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas
“And when the whole is ready, I’ll dispatch My coachman—a most knowing fellow—down To buy me, by admeasurement, a batch Of books in town.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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