»verst

A verst (Russian versta, верста) is an obsolete Russian unit of length. It is defined as being 500 sazhen long, which makes a verst equal to 3500 feet (1.0668 kilometres). Google Calculator doesn't know about it, even though it can handle factor-label problems.

salim filed this under lingo at 09h29 Saturday, 03 November 2007 (link) (Yr two bits?)