Wiktionary:Word of the day/2023/April 15

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Word of the day
for April 15
furlong n
  1. 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.
  2. (dated)
    1. A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
    2. (British, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
  3. (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
  4. (obsolete except British, dialectal, agriculture)
    1. Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
    2. Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)

The Grand National, the most valuable jump horse race in Europe, takes place today in 2023 at the Aintree Racecourse in Aintree, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom.

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