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Acre
noun · 78% connection
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Along
adverb · 78% connection
By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Barleycorn
noun · 78% connection
Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Canna
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Cocoa palm
unknown · 78% connection
A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Cord
noun · 78% connection
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Determination
noun · 78% connection
The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Fathom
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Finger
noun · 78% connection
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Hectolitre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Hectometre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Homer
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Inch
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Juger
noun · 78% connection
A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
Kilometre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: irish, measure, feet, length.
