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Encyclopedia Britannica



FURLONG (from the 0. Eng. furlang, i.e. " furrow-long ")

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 358 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FURLONG (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, 10 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 10
statute
  acres is 220 yds. or 40 poles, which was the usually accepted length of the
furlong
 . This is also the length of 8th of the
statute
  mile. " Furlong " was as early as the 9th
century
  used to translate the Latin
stadium
 , 8th of the
Roman
  mile.


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