Verst n. : A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.

Example:
why our world is geetting to Verst?

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Defination from the web:
verst (Russian versta, верста) is an obsolete Russian unit of length. It is defined as being 500 sazhen long, which makes a verst equal to 3500 feet (1.0668 kilometres). In the English language, verst is singular with the normal plural versts. ...