boatlength
nounEtymology
From boat + length.
Definitions
A distance equal to the length of a boat.
- His failing form the tides wash o’er, / Within a boatlength of the shore.
- Philip was rowing nervously, two boatlengths behind, and the others had given up the race, and were paddling near the banks to talk with their friends.
- The men dropped their ropes and jogged away from the front of the collier. Bartlett guided the collier back to the mouth of the harbour and gave her full throttle. His momentum split the ice and carried him in a few boatlengths.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for boatlength. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA