boatslength

noun

Etymology

From boat + -s- + length.

  1. inherited from *langiþō
  2. inherited from *langiþu
  3. inherited from lengþ
  4. inherited from lengthe
  5. formed as boatslength — “boat + -s- + length

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of boatlength.

    • Those children would grow up to be puffballs too, they’d take up half a boatslength between them.
    • A beamy shoal-draft hull like ours does not shoot far into the wind, but the dead man was no more than three boatslengths off; […]
    • Again we managed to pull ahead a bit each time we came together and by the first mark we rounded several boatslengths in the lead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boatslength. 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