pole: ...a unit of length equal to 16 1/2 feet; a rod...

Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language  
(New York: Portland House, 1989), 1112.

Land area in grants and deeds of the colonial period and later were  
measured by a system called metes and bounds: i.e., measurements  
expressed by compass heading and distance from fixed points. Classes  
in land platting are available and well worth the effort.

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