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Definition of Cable length
1. Noun. A nautical unit of depth.
Definition of Cable length
1. Noun. One tenth (1/10) of a nautical mile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cable Length
Literary usage of Cable length
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"brig, moored about half a cable's length from the shore, protected by two field
pieces, one eighteen-pounder, and some smaller guns, placed on the beach. ..."
2. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"cable length comprises more than physical length alone: It also represents ...
If the cable length read is shorter than the physical length of the cable, ..."
3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... when they enter the port, they leave it to larboard, passing it at a cable's
length or less. ROCAS, Bay of the, on the coast of the Straits of Magellan, ..."
4. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"A little within the entrance, on the east side, half a cable's length from the
shore, is a rock covered at J flood, at 1J mile from the entrance ; near the ..."
5. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"... immediately opposite to the town of Penang, a line-of-battle ship could lie
within a cable's length of the sandy beach. A narrow but deep channel ..."
6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1844)
"W. by corrected ;NNE by uncor- rested) compass, for one to three cable's length,
by which the ship will safely arrive at an anchorage place, with twelve to ..."
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