furlong

noun

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.

   “Novv vvould I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Brovvne firrs, any thing; the vvills aboue be done, but I vvould faine dye a dry death.”

   “And the winepreſſe vvas troden vvithout the citie, and blood came out of the vvinepreſſe, euen vnto the horſe bridles, by the ſpace of a thouſand and ſixe hundred furlongs.”

   “[T]he Otter ſmels a fiſh forty furlong off him in the water; […]”

   “[N]ovv before he had gone far, he entered into a very narrovv paſſage, vvhich vvas about a furlong off the Porters Lodge, and looking very narrovvly before him as he vvent, he eſpied tvvo Lions in the vvay.”

   “The fresh and desperate onset bore / The foes three furlongs back and more, / Leaving their noblest in their gore.”

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

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Buckingham Township and Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.