admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade—their mortality in it—Construction and admeasurement of Slave-ships—Difficulty of procuring evidence—Cases of Gardiner and Arnold CHAP.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Thomas Clarkson
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 (1808) Volume II by Thomas Clarkson
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
Of the former there can be no admeasurement, excepting by its effect, which is recollection: its duration can be well ascertained.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by John Haslam
