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
This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Aggregate admeasurement of six Aggregate admeasurement of six dug up and replanted.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
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 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
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