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Definition of Sagene
1. n. A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.
Definition of Sagene
1. Noun. (alternative form of sazhen) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sagene
1. a fishing net [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagene
Literary usage of Sagene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"fields; on through the narrow quaint lanes in sagene, past waste plots and small
tilled fields, and found myself at last on a country road, the end of which ..."
2. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"fields; on through the narrow quaint lanes in sagene, past waste plots and small
tilled fields, and found myself at last on a country road, the end of which ..."
3. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1921)
"fields; on through the narrow quaint lanes in sagene, past waste plots and small
tilled fields, and found myself at last on a country road, the end of which ..."
4. The Industries of Russia by Russia Ministerstvo finansov, John Martin Crawford, World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"... for each kitchen and bath stove, 1-1 cubic sagene; and for the barn, 1-5 cubic
sagene; which gives for each family 4-6 cubic ..."
5. Commentaries on the Productive Forces of Russia by Ludwik Tegoborski (1855)
"The price of hard-wood delivered at the manufactories, cost of transport included,
comes to about 6 or 7 roubles per cubic sagene, ..."
6. The Oil Fields of Russia and the Russian Petroleum Industry: A Practical by Arthur Beeby-Thompson (1904)
"Giving price per sagene at different depths at usual rate of increase—10 roubles
per sagene ... starting prices from 60 roubles to 90 roubles per sagene. ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1899)
"The Russian standard cubic sagene contains about 343 cubic feet, and this volume
of clean broken ore would weigh about 23 tons; ..."
8. The Industries of Russia by Russia Ministerstvo finansov, John Martin Crawford, World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"They were then deepened and a seam of coal about one sagene thick was encountered.
... As the average thickness of the coal seam is one sagene, and a cubic ..."
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