admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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 act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians.

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)