verst

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All the proper names, no matter how unpronounceable, must be rigidly adhered to; you must never transpose versts into kilometres, or roubles into francs;--I don't know what a verst is or what a rouble is, but when I see the words I am in Russia.

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  1. noun A Russian measure of linear distance equivalent to about two thirds of a mile.

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  • Most Englishmen, if we were to replace verst-posts with milestones and substitute a graveyard for a palisade, would instantly recognize its Yankee extraction. —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  • The witticism ran thus: A courier sent by Prince Potemkin to the Empress drove so fast that his sword, projecting from the vehicle, rattled against the verst-posts as if against a palisade XXXIV But they draw near. —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  • This is given partly through the descriptions, partly through the names of the villagers--Poborino Yanansk, Dankov; partly through the Russian words, such as verst about three quarters of a mile), ruble (a coin worth fifty cents kopeck (a half cent), muzhik (a peasant). —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
  • You tenth verst, you break a beautiful scene on us with your trail across the valley.
  • We crawl along the east shore for a verst and then cross squarely to the other side, facing a cold, harsh wind.
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  1. French verste or German Werst, both from Russian versta; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also sometimes werst (after G.); = French verste, from Russian versta, a verst, also a verst-post, equality, age; perhaps orig. ‘turn,’ hence a distance, a space, for *vertta, from Russian verlietĭ (Slav. √ vert), turn, = Latin vertere, turn: see verse.
 

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