Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
Used in a Sentence
furlong
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for furlong.
Editorial note
A chain is the distance you keep crops apart, and one chain by one furlong is an acre.
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Quick take
Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of furlong gathered in one view.
Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”).
Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for furlong.
noun
Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
noun
Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”).
noun
Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”).
noun
An unincorporated community in Buckingham Township and Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Example sentences
A chain is the distance you keep crops apart, and one chain by one furlong is an acre.
Apparently having evil furriners being able to mess with the definition of the furlong or the hundredweight is a national security threat.
A furlong is the distance a horse can plow in one day.
It is defined as a foot × a chain (66 feet) × a furlong (660 feet).
It's far more impressive to express gravity in units of stone furlong per fortnight squared.
As you say, that's just a furlong, but I doubt either of us knew that at the time.
Firstly I don't think gp meant it literally, but conversationally as in: the definition decomposes to foot x chain x furlong.
> Get paid every fortnight as soon as you reach 30 dollars There's a furlong joke somewhere in here.
Challenge question, a snail's pace is a furlong/fortnight.
Did you know OmniTI (employers of Shiflett and Welling, former employer of Thomson, and sister company to MessageSystems (Wez Furlong & George Schlossnagle) have an office in Brooklyn?
Can someone translate this into furlong-leagues?
It would also remove a fair bit of confusion not only from trying to understand what a yard, furlong or pint is but worse things like there being more than one mile unit.
Quote examples
I think your final sentence would be a more specific/more correct to say "five acres away", but in reality I don't think I've ever heard anyone use a furlong as a serious unit in conversation.
An "acre" is a medieval unit of measure defined as one "chain" by one "furlong", the area a single man can plow in a day with a team of oxen.
I mean, I could buy that it meant that there is a five-acre plot between that house and where we are now, but it wouldn't give me any useful idea of how far the house is other than "not too close." Perhaps you have in mind that, since the "width" of an acre is a furlong, a house 5 acres away is 5 furlongs away?
> An "acre" is a medieval unit of measure defined as one "chain" by one "furlong", the area a single man can plow in a day with a team of oxen.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use furlong in a sentence?
A chain is the distance you keep crops apart, and one chain by one furlong is an acre.
What does furlong mean?
Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
What part of speech is furlong?
furlong is commonly used as noun.