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Thousand Toises per Minute
Noun: toise, f.= a former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres
Etymology: Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from Latin tesa (brachia) ‘outstretched (arms)’, from tendere ‘stretch’.
Pronunciation: /twaz/ 1)a toise. 2)a height gauge. Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toise"