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statute mile
[ stach-oot mahyl, stach-oot ]
statute mile
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Word History and Origins
Origin of statute mile1
First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences
Toscanelli's mile was nearly equivalent to the English statute mile.
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A kilometre is 0.621 or nearly five-eighths of a statute mile.
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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.
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The other work is a general shaded map of Ireland, on a scale of one inch to the statute mile.
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A Geographical Mile is one-seventh more than a statute mile.
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