welch mile

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• Welch

  ·adj ·see <<Welsh>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• mile

  mile, mīlēsĭmus, etc., v. mille, millesimus, etc. ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Mile

  ·noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles ...

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• Mile

  (from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mile

  Often in the singular with a ntlnleral, instead of the plural miles. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Glossary...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mile

  The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Mile

  a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards-4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• welch comb

  The thumb and four fingers. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• welch fiddle

  The itch. See scotch fiddle. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• welch rabbit

  (i. e. a Welch rare-bit) Bread and cheese toasted. See rabbit.--The Welch are said to be so remarka...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• welch ejectment

  To unroof the house, a method practised by landlords in Wales to eject a bad tenant. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Car mile

  ·add. ·- A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the averag...

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• Passenger mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a give...

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• Sea mile

  ·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>. ...

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• Three-mile

  ·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...

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• Ton mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given ...

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• Traffic mile

  ·add. ·- Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's ...

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• minute mile

  The sixtieth part of a degree of longitude or latitude; in the latter case it is the sixtieth part o...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• nautical mile

  (MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...

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