Usually means: Unit of length, mainly historical.
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  1. furlongs: Merriam-Webster
  2. furlongs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. furlongs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Furlong's, Furlongs, furlongs: Wordnik
  5. furlongs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Furlongs, furlongs: Wiktionary
  7. furlongs: Dictionary.com
  8. furlongs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Furlongs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Furlongs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Furlongs: Encyclopedia

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  1. Furlongs: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Furlong)

noun:  A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.
noun:  (dated)
noun:  A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
noun:  (British, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
noun:  (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
noun:  (obsolete except British, dialectal, agriculture)
noun:  Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
noun:  Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”)
noun:  Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)
noun:  A surname.
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