cable's length
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cable's length
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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A cable's length on the port beam the Carse o' Gowrie was backing gently astern in order to close with her consort.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Here, lying about a cable's length off, was a submarine of the "E" type.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Adventure was moored in seventeen fathoms, about a cable's length within the low green point on the south side: and the Chanticleer lay in ten fathoms near the head of the Cove.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
About a cable's length from us lay a large European steamship, flying the yellow flag at the fore.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
Hardly a cable's length away was anchored a stout corvette of twenty-eight guns, whose officers and men, up to that moment, had been observing the new arrival quite listlessly.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
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