admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The following anatomical admeasurement of one of the best proportioned of our visitors was furnished by the surgeon, Mr. Hugh Bell: Full height Ft. in.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew

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

He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

I admire the exact admeasurement of my niece in your mother’s letter—O! the little span-long elf.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John