"Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor."
°An English Customary Unit of distance measuring approximately five
feet.
[: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance, ¶ № 6)].
"I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces."
adjective
verb
°Set the speed in a race.
preposition