See furlong in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Novv vvould I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Brovvne firrs, any thing; the vvills aboue be done, but I vvould faine dye a dry death.",
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"text": "The fresh and desperate onset bore / The foes three furlongs back and more, / Leaving their noblest in their gore.",
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"text": "At first some intervening icebergs prevented Captain Warrens from distinctly seeing any thing except her masts but he was struck with the strange manner in which her sails were disposed, and with the dismantled aspect of her yards and rigging. She continued to go before the wind for a few furlongs, and then grounding upon the low icebergs, remained motionless.",
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"ref": "1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Monadnoc”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 110:",
"text": "His day's ride is a furlong space, / His city tops a glimmering haze.",
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"ref": "1876 September 28, “Ten Broeck’s Victory”, in The New-York Times, volume XXVI, number 7813, New York, N.Y.: Raymond, Jones & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 4:",
"text": "His [the racehorse Ten Broeck's] next appearance was in the Kentucky Derby, at Louisville, won by Aristides, but was unplaced. At the Fall meeting at Lexington he was again unsuccessful in the sweepstakes for three-year olds,^([sic]) but three days afterward he defeated Bob Woolley and others in another sweepstakes of a mile and five furlongs.",
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"text": "[Frankie] Dettori took a bold approach to Trawlerman's wide draw in stall 20, galloping alone and in a clear lead towards the far rail as his 19 opponents sorted themselves out on the inside. He eventually edged across as they turned out of the back, but his carefully worked plan had apparently been to little avail as the well-fancied Earl Of Tyrone edged ahead two furlongs out with Alfred Boucher, a winner on Wednesday's card, also gaining ground.",
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"Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)"
],
"senseid": [
"en:portions of a field for ploughing"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "land"
}
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"topics": [
"agriculture",
"business",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɜːlɒŋ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɝˌlɔŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "forlong"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "فرلنغ"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "furlónh",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "фурлонг"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "fǎrlong",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "фърлонг"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "化郎"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "long⁶",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "浪"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàlǎng",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "化朗"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "làng",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "浪"
},
{
"code": "cv",
"lang": "Chuvash",
"roman": "furlóng",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "фурло́нг"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "vakomitta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "furlong"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sillon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stade"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "perlongi",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "ფერლონგი"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pharlāṅg",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "फर्लांग"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fārongu",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "ファーロング"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haron",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "ハロン"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "furloñ",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "фурлонг"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "peollong",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "펄롱"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "furlong"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fúrlong",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фу́рлонг"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "pharlŏṅga",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "फरलाँग"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "furlong"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "فرلانگ"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Achtel (nds)"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Achtelmiel"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "furlóng",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фурло́нг"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "farlóng",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фарло́нг"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "furlong"
},
{
"code": "tcy",
"lang": "Tulu",
"roman": "parlāṅgŭ",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "ಪರ್ಲಾಂಗ್"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "fúrlonh",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "фу́рлонг"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "fárlonh",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "фа́рлонг"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "pharlāṅg",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"word": "فرلانگ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ystaden"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unit of land area one furlong square",
"word": "neliövakomitta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "undefined portion of an unenclosed field",
"word": "palsta"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "undefined portion of an unenclosed field",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parçe-erd"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Epsom Downs Racecourse"
],
"word": "furlong"
}
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