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 middle term for the rest of France is about nine hundred inhabitants to the same admeasurement.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

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