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Milepost

A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Marker 76% connected

One who or that which marks.

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Milestone 92% connected

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

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About adverb · 78% connection

In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.

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Accent noun · 78% connection

A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of t…

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Better compar. · 78% connection

More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.

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Call verb · 78% connection

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles;…

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Clearance noun · 78% connection

The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a stea…

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Cordon noun · 78% connection

A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.

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Coss noun · 78% connection

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.

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Elongation noun · 78% connection

Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.

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Flight-shot noun · 78% connection

The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.

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Goal noun · 78% connection

A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to sco…

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Grade noun · 78% connection

The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mi…

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Interpolate verb · 78% connection

To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a part…

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Jupiter noun · 78% connection

One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revo…

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Kenning verb · 78% connection

The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.

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Knot noun · 78% connection

A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a m…

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Lap noun · 78% connection

One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. S…

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Lava noun · 78% connection

The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues…

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League noun · 78% connection

A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and us…

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