sazhen

suomi-englanti sanakirja

sazhen englanniksi

  1. A unit of length formerly used in Russia, equal to seven feet.

  2. 1995: And it will not yield more than ten sazhens of wood to the desyatina…and he is paying me at the rate of two hundred roubles. — Leo Tolstoy, ''Anna Karenina'', tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 166)