"Furlong Way" in Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Isaacs, Neil D.

Title
"Furlong Way" in Chaucer.

Published
Notes and Queries 206 (1961): 328-29.

Description
Explains complications in defining "furlong wey" when it refers to time rather than distance, and examines Chaucer's several uses of the term to argue that it means "a short time, sometimes very short, sometimes only fairly short.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies