Meanings of verst in in English

By now my folk will have gone many a verst in that direction.

A last effort! And he plunged into the river, which here was half a verst in width.

The Pass is about fifty versts in length.

They had drifted eleven versts in all.

The Count's own estate extended thirty versts in one direction, so that he had not many near neighbours.

An electric telegraph, with a single wire more than eight thousand versts in length, alone affords communication between the western and eastern frontiers of Siberia.

General Gourko recently inspected two sotnias of Don Cossacks who had cleared 340 versts in 3 days, or 74 miles a day.]