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Furlong
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the 0. Eng. furlang, i.e. " furrow-long"), a measure of length, originally the length of a furrow in the "common field" system. As the field in this system was generally taken to be a square, io acres in extent, and as the acre varied in different districts and at different times, the "furlong" also varied. The side of a square containing ro statute acres is 220 yds. or 40 poles, which was the usually accepted length of the furlong. This is also the length of $th of the statute mile. "Furlong" was as early as the 9th century used to translate the Latin stadium, s th of the Roman mile.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Furlong'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/furlong.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Furlong'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/furlong.html. 1910.
