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
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 Flinders, Matthew
He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
We are thus particular in her admeasurement, because it materially influenced the decision on her complaint.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John
Spitalfields Weavers have extremely small heads, 6-1/2, 6-5/8, 6-3/4, being the prevailing admeasurement.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various
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