statute mile
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of statute mile
First recorded in 1860–65
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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 T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
The other work is a general shaded map of Ireland, on a scale of one inch to the statute mile.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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 Sir Edward Belcher
This is also the length of 1⁄8th of the statute mile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
A Geographical Mile is one-seventh more than a statute mile.
From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by George Moore
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