half-mile
nounDefinitions
Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
- These trains in the course of their day's work often travel a distance little less than that from London to Glasgow, stopping and starting every half-mile.
- They were greeted with applause, medals and the skirl of bagpipes from our lone piper - a sound some told us encouraged tired legs for the last half-mile as the pipes could be heard on the mountain.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for half-mile. 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