admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

If the cubit be taken as eighteen inches, she was 450 feet long, 75 in breadth, and 45 in depth, whilst her tonnage, according to the present system of admeasurement, would be about 15,000 tons.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick