furlong🔊

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.

(dated) A unit of land area one furlong square (ten acres, or about four hectares).

(dated, Britain, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.

(historical) A Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 meters. +

(obsolete except Britain, dialectal, agriculture) Unploughed boundary of a field. +

(obsolete except Britain, dialectal, agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. +