admiralty mile

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admiralty mile - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Admiralty mile
      n 1: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet
           (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
           [syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi,
           geographical mile, Admiralty mile]