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dragonlength en · NOUN

Etymology

From dragon + length.

Meanings

1. A distance equal to the length of a dragon.
   • Further investigation proved that the plateau was isolated and ample to pasture a huge herd of food[-]beasts for the dragons. It ended in a sheer drop of several dragonlengths into denser jungle on one side, the sea-side escarpment on the other. 1968, Anne McCaffrey, “The Cold Between”, in Dragonflight, Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 262:
   • An elv’in scoutship was not a large ship, less than two dragonlengths. 2002, James Clemens (pseudonym; James Paul Czajkowski), Wit’ch Star, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 28:
   • The Copper stood before the massive Black Rock in the center of the Lavadome; it was dozens of dragonlengths high, heavy and black and forbidding. 2007, E. E. Knight (pseudonym; Eric Frisch), chapter 22, in Dragon Outcast (The Age of Fire; 3), Roc Books, →ISBN, page 257:

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