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Gunter's chain   /gˈəntərz tʃeɪn/   Listen
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Gunter's chain  n.  (Surveying) The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.





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... the day inspecting guards—next, making experiments on the destructive effects of gunpowder, commencing with a percussion-pistol, and ending with a mine; buying land, taking altitudes of the sun and of the moon, examining a Gunter's chain or a theodolite, sitting as member of a court-martial, or of a board of respective officers, or counting the gold and silver in the military chest; superintending a fortification of the most intricate Vaubanism; regulating the dip of the needle, or the density of the earth; ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
 
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