Associations to the word «Furlong»

Wiktionary

FURLONG, noun. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 220 yards or exactly 201.168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse racing.

Dictionary definition

FURLONG, noun. A unit of length equal to 220 yards.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne