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Meanings of land mile in English
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.
Usage of land mile in English
1
The ship averages something in the low 20's of our land miles- per-hour.
2
Twenty-five knots-twenty-eight land miles an hour-was the speed of the Plymouth at that moment.
3
Peto are both named for a big, fast mackerel with a cruising speed of 30 land miles per hour.
4
Making allowance for the longitudes and difference in time, this was an average daily run of 378 sea miles or 435 land miles.