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

He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

If the cubit be taken as eighteen inches, she was 450 feet long, 75 in breadth, and 45 in depth, whilst her tonnage, according to the present system of admeasurement, would be about 15,000 tons.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

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