"schene" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin\n schoenus, from Ancient Greek σχοῖνος (skhoînos, “a rush, a reed, a land measure”).",
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          "ref": "1786, Mr. Savary, “Letters on Egypt”, in The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 62, page 440",
          "text": "Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.",
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          "ref": "1817, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, volume 15",
          "text": "With regard to the extent of this lake, we recur again to the testimonies above cited: Herodotus says, that the circumference of the lake Mœris was 3600 stadia, or sixty schenes, which, says the historian, form the dimensions of the maritime base of Egypt, (seventy-five leagues.)",
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        {
          "ref": "1917, Charles Francis Horne, The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, volume 2",
          "text": "We embarked, we parted; we were not long in arriving at the north of Coptos, the distance of a schene.",
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        "(historical) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia."
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