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Furlong

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

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Gunter's chain 70% connected

The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.

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Perch 70% connected

Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flav…

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Pole 70% connected

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

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Rod 70% connected

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).

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Mi 70% connected

A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American syst…

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Mile 70% connected

A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

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About preposition · 78% connection

Around; all round; on every side of.

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Acre noun · 78% connection

Any field of arable or pasture land.

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Are unknown · 78% connection

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is…

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Barleycorn noun · 78% connection

A grain or "corn" of barley.

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Bolt noun · 78% connection

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or t…

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Centare noun · 78% connection

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.

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Counterbrace verb · 78% connection

To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

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Dimension noun · 78% connection

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…

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Finger noun · 78% connection

One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.

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Fortieth adjective · 78% connection

Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

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Grade noun · 78% connection

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grad…

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Greencloth noun · 78% connection

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and…

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Hair'sbreadth unknown · 78% connection

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.

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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…

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Hectometre noun · 78% connection

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

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Heer noun · 78% connection

A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.

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Inc noun · 78% connection

A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

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Inch noun · 78% connection

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

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