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fur⋅long

  [fur-lawng, -long]
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a unit of distance, equal to 220 yards (201 m) or 1/8 mile (0.2 km). Abbreviation: fur.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE furlang length of a furrow. See furrow, long 1
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fur·long   (fûr'lông', -lŏng')   
n.   Abbr. fur.
A unit for measuring distance, equal to 1/8 mile (201 meters). See Table at measurement.

[Middle English, from Old English furlang : furh, furrow + lang, long; see long1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Furlong

Fur"long\, n. [OE. furlong, furlang, AS. furlang, furlung, prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow, and Long, a.] A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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furlong 
O.E. furlang "measure of distance" (roughly 220 yards), originally the length of a furrow in the common field of 10 acres, from furh "furrow" + lang "long." But the "acre" of the common field being variously measured, the furlong was fixed 9c. on the stadium, one-eighth of a Roman mile.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Furlong

a stadium, a Greek measure of distance equal to 606 feet and 9 inches (Luke 24:13; John 6:19; 11:18; Rev. 14:20; 21:16).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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furlong

old English unit of length, based on the length of an average plowed furrow (hence "furrow-long," or furlong) in the English open- or common-field system. Each furrow ran the length of a 40 4-rod acre, or 660 modern feet. The standardization of such linear units as the yard, foot, and inch-begun by government enactment sometime between 1266 and 1303-recognized the traditional sizes of rods, furlongs, and acres as fixed and therefore simply redefined them in terms of the newly standardized units. Thus, the furlong, often measured as 625 northern (German) feet, became 660 standard English feet, and the mile, always 8 furlongs, became 5,280 feet. Today, the furlong is used almost exclusively in horse racing.

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