cable's length
or cable length
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.
Origin of cable's length
1- Also called cable.
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How to use cable's length in a sentence
Four-tenths of a second would make a difference of only one-tenth of a mile—a cable-length!
The Cruise of the Snark | Jack LondonThe strange boat was steadily forging up-stream and presently it was disclosed to view no more than a cable-length away.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer | Ralph D. PaineThey came leisurely towards us, those eight ugly craft, about a cable length apart, steering towards the very centre of our line.
Sir Ludar | Talbot Baines ReedYou see, we could pass within a cable length of one of those Austrian monitors now and they'd never know it.
Under Fire For Servia | Colonel James FiskeFrightfully she labours, that poor ship, within cable-length of port; huge peril for her.
The French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle
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