Furlong

n. measure of length

A furlong is a measure of distance within imperial units and U.S. customary units, and is equal to 660 feet or one-eighth of a mile. In metric units, this is 201.168 metres.Distances for thoroughbred horse races in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States are still given in miles and furlongs (example), but the unit is otherwise no longer in common use. It is heavily used within the rail industry (especially maintenance and repair services) in the UK, due to the legacy measurements and distance markers from when the tracks were first laid down (see milestone).
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Noun
1. a unit of length equal to 220 yards
(hypernym) linear unit
(part-holonym) mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, mi
(part-meronym) perch, rod, pole

n. furl

(a.)
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.