Definition of "wersts" [wersts]

• Plural form of werst. (noun)

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• "There was no stopping; and before the garrisons along the line knew that Schamyl had come, he was gone; and when the Kabardians believed that the braggart who had threatened their land with plundering was shut up in his mountains six hundred wersts away, he was in their midst."
• "It is situated in the district of Koissubui, on the right bank of the Andian branch of the Koissu near its junction with the main stream, only a short distance northwest of Himri, and about sixty wersts by the most direct route from the Russian line."
• "On the top is the aoul, which is divided into old and new Akhulgo, being together a circumference of something less than a couple of wersts."