toise
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of toise
1590–1600; < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *tēsa, (feminine singular), Latin tēnsa ( bracchia ) outstretched (arms), neuter plural taken as feminine singular See tense 1
Example Sentences
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Some are at the water's edge, others one-fourth or one-fifth of a toise above the surface of the sea.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
In Market Square, Philadelphia, land was worth from 3,000 to 4,000 francs per sq. toise, and in Wall Street, New York, about 4,000 francs.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
The toise is equal to 6·3946 English feet.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The canal of Languedoc, along which I now travel, is six toises wide at bottom, and ten toises at the surface of the water, which is one toise deep.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
These towers are said to be about one toise higher than those of Notre Dame.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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