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

A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

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