decempedal

English

Etymology

From Latin decem (“ten”) + pes (“foot”) + -al.

Adjective

decempedal (not comparable)

Having ten feet; decapodal.
(obsolete) Ten feet in length or height.
- 1889, Archaeological Review, volume 3:
  It is well known that in classical times in Asia, measurements were made by original Stadia of six hundred feet (i.e., 400 sesquipedales cubits), whatever the foot might be, this representing 60 decempedal rods.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “decempedal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)