decempedal

Meanings

adjectivedecempedal (not comparable)

not comparableobsoleteTen feet in length or height.
It is well known that in classical times in Asia, measurements were made by original Stadia of six hundred feet (i.e., 400 sesquipedales cubits), whatever the foot might be, this representing 60 decempedal rods.
1889, Archaeological Review, volume 3

From Latin decem (“ten”) + pes (“foot”) + -al. By surface analysis, decem- + -pedal.

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French décempédal

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