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单词 cable length
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cable('s) length
a. A distance equal to the length of something specified or implied. at arm's length: see arm n.1 Phrases 2b cable('s) length: see cable n. 2c.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > specific distance > equal to the length of something spec.
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1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxvi. 71 A litel hows whiche hath in euery side skars a mannes lengthe.
1474–5 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 311 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 Within the laynth of a myle unto the citie.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 223 Nott two payre of boot lenthis distant frome the toune.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 89 He tooke me by the wrist, and held me hard, Then goes he to the length of all his arme. View more context for this quotation
1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 31 We could scarce see the Ship's length before us.
1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 261 Adorn'd with Porticos of Timber Work, the Length of the Building.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 20 I might..have gone the Length of a..Street.
1842 T. B. Macaulay Horatius in Lays Anc. Rome 64 Six spears' lengths from the entrance Halted that mighty mass.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. viii. 146 They had got the mustang some fifty lengths of himself out into the prairie.
1885 Sir C. P. Butt in Law Times Rep. 53 61/1 The look-out..saw..at a distance of two ship's lengths, a red light on board the smack.
1888 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (new ed.) V. xii. 79 When they come within little more than a horse-length.
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