- square furlong
- noun
: a unit of area equal to a square one furlong on each side or 10 acres or 404.7 ares
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
square furlong
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furlong — [fʉr′lôŋ΄] n. [ME < OE furlang, a measure, lit., length of a furrow < furh, FURROW + lang, LONG1] a unit of length in the FPS system, equal to 220 yards or 1/ 8 statute mile (201.168 meters): one square furlong equals ten acres: abbrev. fur … English World dictionary
Furlong — unit of length m= 201.16800 accuracy=6 A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units. It is equal to one eighth of a mile or 660 feet or 201.168 metres.Five furlongs are approximately 1 kilometre (1.00584 km to be… … Wikipedia
furlong — [OE] Furlong ‘eighth of a mile’, which has now virtually died out except in horse racing terminology, is part of a vocabulary of lengthmeasuring bequeathed to us by the agricultural practices of our ancestors. It originated as an Old English… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
furlong — [OE] Furlong ‘eighth of a mile’, which has now virtually died out except in horse racing terminology, is part of a vocabulary of lengthmeasuring bequeathed to us by the agricultural practices of our ancestors. It originated as an Old English… … Word origins
Furlong — (Anglo Saxon field.) The length of a plough furrow ie. Furrow long. In the strip field farming system, the length of the field strip ploughed before turning the ox team to plough the next furrow. ♦ 220 yards length (x 22 yards (1 chain) = 1 acre … Medieval glossary
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Acre — The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. One international acre is… … Wikipedia
