Definitions for Furlong

Furlong fur·long

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

Furlong is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in Furlong (fglnoru).

Definitions for Furlong

noun

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

Origin of Furlong

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

Examples for Furlong

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

For a furlong the advance continued in this laborious fashion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for Furlong
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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