admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Also, the admeasurement of a ship, and thence to ascertain her cubical contents converted into tons.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

If we investigate the standards of admeasurement, we find that many have been derived from the human body, and more especially from its operative instrument, the hand.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

The phenomenon had not been explained—the instruments had not yet been invented which could fathom its depths, or take the admeasurement at the meridian.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac