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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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Boatswain
noun · 78% connection
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Coextend
verb · 78% connection
To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Coir
noun · 78% connection
Cordage or cables, made of this material.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Deep
adverb · 78% connection
To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Depth
noun · 78% connection
The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Draught
noun · 78% connection
The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet dra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Draw
verb · 78% connection
To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Extend
verb · 78% connection
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord acros…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Hand
noun · 78% connection
A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
Hawse
noun · 78% connection
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
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: measure, length, containing, feet, space.
