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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.
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