As an imprecise measure of time: the time it might take to travel a mile. Cf. mileway, n. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > time > period > minute > [noun] > period of specific number of minutes (4) milec1275 As an imprecise measure of time: the time it might take to travel a mile. Cf. mileway, n. Obsolete. mileway1370 The length of time it would take to travel a mile on foot (cf. mile, n.1 2); spec. a period of twenty minutes; (Astronomy) a third of an hour of… ghurry1638 A space of time: (a) (in old Hindu custom) 24 minutes, the 60th part of a day of 24 hours; (b) (in Anglo-Indian usage) an hour. scruple1702 As a unit of time. Similarly, the day of 24 hours was divided sexagesimally into first, second,etc. scruples, the ‘first scruple’ being = 24 minutes. |
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