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Cable's length   /kˈeɪbəlz lɛŋkθ/   Listen
Cable's length

noun
1.
A nautical unit of depth.  Synonyms: cable, cable length.






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"Cable's length" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind bent on other and distant scenes, that at first I felt no surprise, as if we were in a harbor surrounded by craft of various sizes, coming and going at all hours. But a second thought destroyed this illusion, and I looked eagerly about me. Directly on our weather-bow, distant, perhaps, a cable's length, I saw a small sail, and I could distinguish it sufficiently well to perceive it was a proa. I sang out "Sail ...
— Great Pirate Stories • Various

... shove off a couple of boat—lengths, should any suspicious circumstance indicating an attack take place, we separated, like a pulk of Cossacks coming to the charge, but without the hourah, with orders to meet before Pat Doolan's door, as speedily as our legs could carry us. We had landed about a cable's length to the right of the high precipitous bank—up which we stole in straggling parties—on which that abominable congregation of the most filthy huts ever pig grunted in is situated, called the Holy Ground. Pat Doolan's domicile was in a ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott



Words linked to "Cable's length" :   cable, linear measure, cable length, linear unit



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