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FURLONG (from the 0. Eng. furlang, i....

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FURLONG (from the 0. Eng. furlang, i.e. " furrow-See also:long ")  , a measure of length, originally the length of a furrow in the " See also:common See also:field " See also:system . As the field in this system was generally taken to be a square, 10 acres in extent, and as the See also:acre varied in different districts and at different times, the " See also:furlong " also varied . The See also:side of a square containing 10 See also:statute acres is 220 yds. or 40 poles, which was the usually accepted length of the furlong . This is also the length of 8th of the statute mile . " Furlong " was as See also:early as the 9th See also:century used to translate the Latin See also:stadium, 8th of the See also:Roman mile .

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