Definitions for furlongs

furlongs fur·long

Spelling: [fur-lawng, -long]
IPA: /ˈfɜr lɔŋ, -lɒŋ/

Furlongs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in furlongs (fglnorsu).

Definitions for furlongs

noun

  1. a unit of distance, equal to 220 yards (201 meters) or ⅛ mile (0.2 km). Abbreviation: fur.

Origin of furlongs

before 900; Middle English; Old English furlang length of a furrow. See furrow, long1

Examples for furlongs

For a furlong the advance continued in this laborious fashion.

The House of Turriepuffit stood about a furlong from David's cottage.

Nor had he gone a furlong more when just ahead he spied the lions themselves.

"Success to O'Gwady," faintly echoed furlong, as he sipped his claret.

And so, with every furlong of the forced journey, he died a fresh death.

"Well, I could not have believed, if I hadn't seen it," said furlong.

At a furlong's distance every wolf stopped and turned round.

But furlong became legally emancipated that same year, at the age of 16.

The prairie-men could tell to a furlong, both the gait and the distance.

His house was scarcely a furlong distant, yet he was an hour crawling to it.

Word Value for furlongs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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