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measured mile |
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In maritime navigation, distance precisely measured and marked, used by a vessel to calibrate its log. |
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| From the western gate aforesaid the highway, as every Wintoncestrian knows, ascends a long and regular incline of the exact length of a measured mile, leaving the houses gradually behind. When I have been on river service I have heard it at night like the engine-room when you are on the measured mile. |
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