A few days ago
Josh Henry R

where did the word FURLONG originate>?

where?

Top 5 Answers
A few days ago
Madame Morticia

Favorite Answer

Why not check it out in an online dictionary?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/furlong

The word’s origin is listed in the dictionary entry.

Hope this helps.

0

A few days ago
Anonymous
It is possible that it originated in England because it seems to come from an Old English term for furrow. It could also be Greek because it is mentioned in the Bible and is used to describe the measurement of a stadium.

‘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’.

‘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)’.

0

A few days ago
flymetothemoon279
Other measures were originally derived from physical activity. For example, a league was the distance covered by walking for one hour; an acre was the amount of ground plowed in a day; a furlong was the length of a plowed ditch; and the ell, used to measure cloth, was the distance from the elbow to the tip of the index finger. These units, for obvious reasons, were very imprecise. The ell, for example, ranged from 0.513 to 2.322 meters depending on where it was used and the type of goods being measured
0

A few days ago
Anonymous
A mother asked her jockey son who was going away. Will you be gone furlong ?
0

A few days ago
Anonymous
furrow’s length
0