parasang

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parasang - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Parasang \Par"a*sang\, n. [L. parasanga, Gr. ?, from Old
     Persian; cf. Per. farsang.]
     A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus
     and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three
     and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and
     places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a
     half to four English miles.
     [1913 Webster]