Furlong
['fɜːlɒŋ] or ['fɝlɔŋ]
Definition
(a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Forty rods, poles, or perches; eighth of a mile.
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Definition
n. 40 poles: one-eighth of a mile.
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Examples
- We looked down the whole vista, and saw it closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong in length. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That the mother and father, unknown to one another, were dwelling within so many miles, furlongs, yards if you like, of one another. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- New course (one mile and five furlongs). Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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