The toise used in this measure was afterwards regarded as the standard toise, and is always referred to as the Toise of Peru.
He took the precaution of comparing his standard with that of the French, so that his result was expressed in toises (the length of the toise is about 6.
Austria, Spain, the United States, Cape of Good Hope and Russia) and found that 1 toise = 6.
Subsequently, he investigated the expansion of a toise of iron from the variation in the period of his pendulum.
Bessel used as a standard of length a toise which had been made by Fortin in Paris and had been compared with the original of the "toise de Peru" by Arago.
The distance between the two points of suspension (a and b) was 1 toise (about six feet).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
