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Note 215 — IV

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“A furlong, quasi furrowlong, being so much as a team in England plougheth going forward, before they return back again”. (Fuller, Pisgah Sight of Palestine, p. 42.) [‘Furlong’ in St. Luke xxiv, 13, already occurs in the Anglo-Saxon version of that passage as furlanga.]

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