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 Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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 Clarkson, Thomas

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.

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