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sazhen - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sazhen'

English

Alternative forms

* sagene * sajene

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A unit of length formerly used in Russia, equal to seven feet.
  • * 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)