admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas

Also, the admeasurement of a ship, and thence to ascertain her cubical contents converted into tons.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He knows by actual admeasurement that some of them are much larger than the planet he occupies.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

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