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 course, he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

In the reign of Henry V. the trade had become of such importance that a special Act was passed providing for the admeasurement of ships and barges employed in the coal trade.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

The vessel then in the plate is the vessel now mentioned, and the following is her admeasurement as given in by Captain Parrey.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Clarkson, Thomas

But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington