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
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 Daniel Defoe
Aristotle’s admeasurement of beds was six feet; and certainly the doorways of ancient edifices by no means indicated taller inmates than our present generation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
This admeasurement raised my merriment to its acme, and I laughed aloud.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
The following anatomical admeasurement of one of the best proportioned of our visitors was furnished by the surgeon, Mr. Hugh Bell: Full height Ft. in.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Matthew Flinders
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