admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And when the whole is ready, I’ll dispatch My coachman—a most knowing fellow—down To buy me, by admeasurement, a batch Of books in town.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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
The dimensions are so variously stated, owing largely to difference of opinion as to what should be embraced within the admeasurement, that we are at a loss how to give them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
To reason, is to adapt our means, that is, our knowledge, for the attainment of the end or object proposed: it is the estimate or admeasurement of these means.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by John Haslam
