A fall or fa’ is a Scottish measurement of length. Other variants of the name include "faw", "faa" and "fa"; the spelling with an
apologetic apostrophe is not favoured now. The measurement was mostly out of use by the 19th century, and English measurements were imposed in 1824 by an act of parliament.
There were 320 falls in a
Scots mile.
Equivalent to:
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Scottish measures: 18 ft, or 6
ells
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Metric system
The metric system is a system of measurement that standardization, standardizes a set of base units and a nomenclature for describing relatively large and small quantities via decimal-based multiplicative unit prefixes. Though the rules gover ...
: 5.6479 metres
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Imperial system: 6.1766
yards, 1.123
rods
See also
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Ell (Scots)
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Scottish inch
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Scots mile
References
Obsolete Scottish units of measurement
Units of length
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