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▸ noun:  A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.
▸ noun:  (dated)
▸ noun:  A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
▸ noun:  (British, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
▸ noun:  (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
▸ noun:  (obsolete except British, dialectal, agriculture)
▸ noun:  Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
▸ 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:  A surname.

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