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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A unit for measuring distance, equal to 1/8 mile (201 meters). See Table at measurement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A measure of length equal to the eighth part of a mile, 40 rods, poles, or perches, 220 yards, or 201.17 meters. The furlong corresponds to the Roman stadium, and one eighth of any kind of mile is called a furlong in older writers. Thus, English writers of the sixteenth century often call 625 feet a furlong; and the reason is that 5 feet was taken to be a pace, so that a Roman mile of 1,000 paces would be 8 x 625 feet. So the eighth part of a Scotch mile, or nearly 742 feet, was a furlong. In the English translation of the New Testament furlong is used to translate the Greek στάδιον, stadium. Abbreviated fur.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A unit of length equal to 220 yards or exactly 201.168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse-racing.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a unit of length equal to 220 yards

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English furlang : furh, furrow + lang, long; see long1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • oroboros A measure of distance, a furrow long, the distance eight oxen in a plow-team can work without rest; also, one side of a 10-acre square. Jan 11, 2007

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