furlong• He shall put 1 row of dung on 1 furlong for 2 works.• A furlong short of the small covert where the fox had started she slipped from Fontana's back.• She will have learned from that experience and the extrafurlongtomorrow will suit her perfectly.• Roberts, ridingPride Of King, caused interference inside the finalfurlong in the same race.• But he led the field a merrydance until being overhauled inside the final furlong.• Tomorrow's distance of two miles four and a half furlongs should suit MightyMogul even more.• Andre Fabre's colt was supplementedyesterday for the Group One contest over six furlongs.• Two furlongs, I thought frivolously, to put it suitably.
Originfurlong
Old Englishfurlang, from furh“furrow” + lang“long”