What is the unit of measurement for girth?

Answer 1

Girth is simply the distance around something. In math classes and Physics labs

it's called 'perimeter', but that's too many syllables for the fast-paced worlds of

the post office and cargo shipment, so they prefer the 300-year-old word for

the distance the saddle band has to go around the horse's belly.

Girth is just a length, so it can be expressed in any unit of length measurement.

Again, this could just as well be meters, centimeters, inches, feet, yards, etc.,

but I suspect there are still freight forwarders measuring the girth of their cargo

in furlongs, fathoms, stadia, rods, leagues and cubits.