British measure of distance, apparently used for measuring fields and
related to the distance a horse could plough at once: 660 feet. There are
8 furlongs in a British mile. Distances less than a mile for thoroughbred horse[?]races in the United States are given in furlongs.
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... appeared in Italian (Venice, 1488,
Milan 1489), Spanish (Seville, 1536), Arabic (Rome,
1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674), Hebrew (Frankfort,
1837), and other ...