engineer's chain

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   a unit of length (100 ft)

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Questions about engineer's chain

What does engineer's chain mean?

engineer's chain means "a unit of length (100 ft)".

Is engineer's chain a common word?

engineer's chain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.