admeasurement
Example Sentences
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I admire the exact admeasurement of my niece in your mother’s letter—O! the little span-long elf.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
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
Aggregate admeasurement of six Aggregate admeasurement of six dug up and replanted.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
“And when the whole is ready, I’ll dispatch My coachman—a most knowing fellow—down To buy me, by admeasurement, a batch Of books in town.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
