What is Furlong?
Furlong is a specific unit in the UK and the US that is often not visible in modern times. It is translated into eighth mile, 660 feet or 220 yards (0.20 km or 201.17 m). So if you travel at a speed of 10 mph (16.09 km/h), you should basically travel 80 furlongs per hour. Stade is 625 feet (190.5 m). Early English translations of the Greek text in the Bible complicated the matter of measurement by replacing Furlong for the stad, although it was inaccurate. Like Furlongs, however, Stade was the eighth place of the Roman mile.
After the fall of Roman control over Europe, the British retained a large part of these original units and published specific measurements up to 1300s. Furlongs were particularly important because they tend to be a measuring series or furrows in an acre. The British acre was basically one Furlong AA one chain, 22 yards (20.12 m), wide. The American football field is about half Furlong.
furLong, in verbal origin is Portmanteau word, a combination of words furrow (Fuhr) and lang , which means long. The word is derived from Anglo -Saxon and survived by transition to the center and then modern English. In general, the most practical use of a verbal day as a measurement is in a discussion of distances on horse races. The distances of the race are still measured as miles and furlong.
Since the United Kingdom has accepted the metric system and the US has also tried to accept it, you will probably see much less use of Furlong in the future as a units of measure. In 1985, the United Kingdom passed a law on weight and measures that standardized the use of metric measurements. The metric system is more practical in many ways because it is designed on the base 10 system, facilitating conversions.
conversions are much more difficult if the units are somewhat accidental, as in our usual units. The leg is 12 inches, Yard is three feet and Furlong is the eighth mile.With measuring such as pleasant or foot, you can't always depend on the same number to see how each unit fits into others.