cable's length

or cable length

noun

a nautical unit of length equivalent to 720 feet (219 meters) in the U.S. Navy and 608 feet (185 meters) in the British Navy.

First recorded in 1545–55

The best anchorage is in five fathoms water, about two cables length from the shore, directly in front of the village.

Each transport was two cables length ahead of the one following; each division (on parallel courses) four cables from the other.

Nearer and nearer they came, until scarcely a cables length separated them.

The bank does not extend more than three cables length from the shore; without that, is an unfathomable depth.

When within a cables length of the Ranger Captain Burdon sent up his colors.

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