statute mile
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of statute mile
First recorded in 1860–65
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It is equal to 3484.9 English feet, or nearly 2/3 of a statute mile.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
The Survey has also engraved a map of Dublin City on the enormous scale of five feet to a statute mile.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
A Geographical Mile is one-seventh more than a statute mile.
From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by Moore, George
The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6 feet, or 60 to a degree.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Toscanelli's mile was nearly equivalent to the English statute mile.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
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