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smootnoun
A small opening built into a dry-stone wall as a bolthole allowing a person to cross the wall while impeding the livestock.
Etymology: Height of Oliver R. Smoot.
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Smoot
The smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
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Smoot
The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge, and was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the bridge.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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[MIT] A unit of length equal five feet seven inches. The length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is famously 364.4 smoots plus an ear (the ear is allegedly the width of the earhole in the side of the football helmet the victim was wearing when he was rolled over the bridge). This legend began with a fraternity prank in 1958 during which the body length of Oliver Smoot (class of '62) was actually used to measure out that distance. It is commemorated by smoot marks that MIT students repaint every few years; the tradition even survived the demolition and rebuilding of the bridge in the late 1980s. The Boston police have been known to use smoot markers to indicate accident locations on the bridge. Apparently Smoot's experience as a unit of measurement led to a life-long career; he eventually became Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute, and later President of the International Organization for Standardization.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Smoot is ranked #3868 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Smoot surname appeared 9,168 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Smoot.
66.2% or 6,073 total occurrences were White.
28.7% or 2,633 total occurrences were Black.
2.5% or 234 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.5% or 138 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.5% or 48 total occurrences were Asian.
0.4% or 42 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of smoot in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of smoot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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