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 Robert Kerr
The vessel, then, in the plate is the vessel now mentioned, and the following is her admeasurement as given in by Captain Parrey.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Thomas Clarkson
But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
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 John Keats
