admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He knows by actual admeasurement that some of them are much larger than the planet he occupies.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

Of course, he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

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)

Spitalfields Weavers have extremely small heads, 6-1/2, 6-5/8, 6-3/4, being the prevailing admeasurement.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various