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measured mile

    0.06 sec.
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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