Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sagene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
sagene .
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- noun Alternative form of
sazhen .
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Examples
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Wood, in billets, 42s. per cubic sajene = 343 cubic feet; equivalent to 1.47d. per cubic foot.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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_ -- Contents: water, 310 cubic feet, or 1,933 gallons, or 8½ tons; anthracite, 600 poods, or 10 tons; or wood, 1½ cubic sajene, or
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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The Russian measure of wood is the _sajene_ (fathom.) and a sajene of wood is a pile a fathom long, wide, and high.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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