parasang

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Plant the butt of your rod or pole firmly in the socket fitted for the purpose in all motor-stooter boats and let the fish run for about a parasang, and then strike and strike hard.

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  1. noun An ancient Persian unit of distance, usually estimated at 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers).

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  1. Latin parasanga, from Greek parasangēs, of Iranian origin.

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  1. Formerly also parasangue; = French parasange = Spanish Portuguese Italian parasanga, from Latin parasanga, from Greek παρασάγγης, a parasang, from Persian *parsang, farsang (later English sometimes farsang, fursung; Arabic farsekh), a parasang.
 

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/ˈpærəsæŋ/
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