admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the cubit be taken as eighteen inches, she was 450 feet long, 75 in breadth, and 45 in depth, whilst her tonnage, according to the present system of admeasurement, would be about 15,000 tons.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
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 Matthew Flinders
