admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The phenomenon had not been explained—the instruments had not yet been invented which could fathom its depths, or take the admeasurement at the meridian.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
If we investigate the standards of admeasurement, we find that many have been derived from the human body, and more especially from its operative instrument, the hand.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John
