admeasurement

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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are thus particular in her admeasurement, because it materially influenced the decision on her complaint.

From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John

Spitalfields Weavers have extremely small heads, 6-1/2, 6-5/8, 6-3/4, being the prevailing admeasurement.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various

Of one of these I shall give the exact dimensions from a careful admeasurement, and then particularly describe the manner in which they are built.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert

Aggregate admeasurement of six Aggregate admeasurement of six dug up and replanted.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie