length over all

American  

noun

1. Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.

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Example Sentences

Dockage fees run $120 per linear foot in the summer, $105 in the winter, and Ms. Clegg’s schooner is 39 feet length over all.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2016

Her length over all is 485 feet; beam, 51 feet; depth, 36 feet; and gross tonnage, 5,920 tons.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various

I. Its length over all is 27½ in.; the playing length of the hair is 23¼ in.; the width of the hair barely ¼ in.

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry

Her dimensions are given as follows: length of keel, 70 ft.; length over all, 110 ft.; width at prow and poop, 40 ft.

From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.

In general shape it is long and narrow, the length over all being twenty-one miles.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir