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Definition of Last mile
1. Noun. The last walk of a condemned person to the execution place.
Definition of Last mile
1. Noun. (context: telecommunications) The portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end users' home or business. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Last Mile
Literary usage of Last mile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"1 2 73 Rowley Mile (last mile of AF) . . 1 0 17 Kitch Mile (first mile of AF) .
... 1 7 158 last mile and a half of TMM . . . 14 29 Two Year Old Course (on ..."
2. The Conquest of Canada by George Warburton (1849)
"... particularly at the Ferry of Blackrock, where it rushes past at the rate of
seven miles an hour; within the last mile there is a tremendous ..."
3. A country doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett (1884)
"I. THE last mile. IT had been one of the warm and almost sultry days which
sometimes come in November; a maligned month, which is really an epitome of the ..."
4. American Agriculturist (1848)
"They now entered upon the fourth and last mile, which commences with a turn or
sweep, ... of the last mile, and had advanced within sixty rode of home. ..."
5. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1871)
"Each heat was well contested—the last mile of the second heat was run in 1m.
48s.; the last mile ... 50s.; and the last mile in the fourth heat in 1m. 49s. ..."
6. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1832)
"last mile and a half. The owner of the second horse to receive 'back his ...
last mile and three- quarters—в subs. The Convivial Stakes of .50 sovs. each, ..."
7. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"Arrow having run a four-mile dash in 7.39, on the 6th of January last, finishing
the last mile in a gallop, and Little Flea having, on Wednesday last, ..."
8. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"The last mile or two of this valley road winds quite close to the Stour, two or
three lovely peeps of which are obtainable through gaps in the hedges and ..."
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