Furlong

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.

   “Novv vvould I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Brovvne firrs, any thing; the vvills aboue be done, but I vvould faine dye a dry death.”

2. isim A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
3. isim An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
4. isim Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”).
5. isim Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”).
6. isim Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
7. isim Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”).
8. özel isim A surname.
9. özel isim An unincorporated community in Buckingham Township and Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.