gunter's chain

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   a unit of length (22 yards)

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Questions about gunter's chain

What does gunter's chain mean?

gunter's chain means "a unit of length (22 yards)".

Is gunter's chain a common word?

gunter'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.