Both Uses of
altitude
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I was an hour walking to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred and twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty that I could make no computation of their altitude.†
Chpt 2 *
- He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(altitude) elevation (height) -- typically above sea level or above the earth's surface
or:
(metaphorically) a desirable height