A smoot is a unit of length equal to five feet seven inches, used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston.
The word smoot is specific to the Harvard Bridge and is a fun and quirky way to measure length.
Examples:
The bridge is ten smoots long.
I walked two smoots on the bridge.
He measured the room in smoots.
I am as tall as three smoots!
The giant was as tall as twenty smoots.
The rope was five smoots long.