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toise


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Toise  \Toise\,  n.  [F.,  fr  LL  tesa,  fr  L.  tensus,  fem.  tensa, 
  p.  p.  of  tendere  to  stretch,  extend.  See  {Tense},  a.] 
  An  old  measure  of  length  in  France,  containing  six  French 
  feet,  or  about  6.3946  French  feet. 




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