| 单词 | a cable or cable's length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa cable or cable's length c. a cable or cable's length, as a unit of measurement, ‘about 100 fathoms; in marine charts 607·56 feet, or one-tenth of a sea mile’ (Adml. Smyth). ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352 Redde cliffes with white strakes like wayes a cable length a piece. 1665 Duke of York's Fight. Instr. xiv To keep about the distance of half a cable from one another. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3844/4 The Two Buoys..being distant near the Length of Two Cables. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Cable,..a measure of 120 fathoms, called by the English seamen a cable's length. 1778 Capt. Miller in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 159 We got within a cable and a half of her. 1813 R. Southey Life of Nelson (1854) 167 He veered half a cable, and instantly opened a tremendous fire. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xi. 26 Within two cable lengths of the shore. < as lemmas |
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