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boatslength en · NOUN

Etymology

From boat + -s- + length.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of boatlength.
   alt of boatlength
   • Again we managed to pull ahead a bit each time we came together and by the first mark we rounded several boatslengths in the lead. 1996, Russell Coutts, as told to Paul Larsen, Russell Coutts: Course to Victory, Hodder Moa Beckett, →ISBN, page 213:
   • A beamy shoal-draft hull like ours does not shoot far into the wind, but the dead man was no more than three boatslengths off; […] 1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 243:
   • Those children would grow up to be puffballs too, they’d take up half a boatslength between them. 1985, Beth Carsley Jones, Hall of Sparrows, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 186:

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