FURLONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furlong mean? 

• FURLONG (noun)
  The noun FURLONG has 1 sense:

1. a unit of length equal to 220 yards

  Familiarity information: FURLONG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURLONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of length equal to 220 yards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("furlong" is a kind of...):

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Meronyms (parts of "furlong"):

perch; pole; rod (a linear measure of 16.5 feet)

Gunter's chain (a unit of length (22 yards))

Holonyms ("furlong" is a part of...):

international mile; land mile; mi; mile; stat mi; statute mile (a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters)

 Context examples 

We looked down the whole vista, and saw it closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong in length.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But oh, my dear lord, she cried with a trembling lip, let me bide with you for one furlong further—or one and a half perhaps.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! I know nothing of your furlongs, but I am sure it is a very long wood, and that we have been winding in and out ever since we came into it; and therefore, when I say that we have walked a mile in it, I must speak within compass.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)