milyard

Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Consider the Steps to be Taken for Restoration of the Standards of Weight and Measure.
London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1841.
Page 11.
In the Commission's recommendations:

35. That the name milyard, or some other to be fixed by Act of Parliament, be recognized as describing the measure of 1000 yards, without the necessity of further definition.

So far as we know, the milyard never found actual use, and never made it to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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