| 单词 | square toise |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquare toise A French lineal measure of 6 French feet, roughly equal to 1·949 metres, or 62/ 5 English feet. Chiefly in military use. square toise, a measure = about 41/ 2 square yards. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > French units aune1481 toise1604 cane1653 1604 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. B4v This great City..is within ten Toyses as large as Paris. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 119 The Greate Garden being 180 thoises long and 154 wide. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. ii. 150 1344 square toises of 36 feet. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII vii. 114 The column ordered on the assault scarce passed Beyond the Russian batteries a few toises [rhyme noises]. 1904 A. Quiller-Couch Fort Amity xiii It was quadrilateral with a frontage of fifty toises. < as lemmas |
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