A nautical unit of depth.
1I'd rather pay a million salvage than navigate her another cable's length.
2Five minutes later the whale-boat was at a cable's length from the jubarte.
3Why, they lived here no more than a cable's length from the meetin'-house!
4In another half-hour, Christy had dropped his anchor a cable's length from the Bellevite.
5The distance between my outer and inner points might have been a cable's length.
6The Christabel was about a cable's length ahead of them.
7Before the conspirators had gone a cable's length, he succeeded.
8They were ignorant of their whereabouts, they could scarcely see a cable's length around.
9Clear and distinct, not half a cable's length away, wallowed a great black shape.
10The action was fought nearly at the distance of a cable's length from the enemy.
11The Egyptian frigate, which had fired into our ship was distant about half a cable's length.
12The Seabird passed within a cable's length of the breakers at the northern end of the reef.
13We returned by sundown, and found the Loriotte at anchor within a cable's length of the Pilgrim.
14The latter obeyed, and when the brig was only half a cable's length from it, Hatteras called out:
15Not until within a cable's length of the shore could any opening be discovered by the keenest eye.
16The two immediately behind were but a cable's length asunder, and evidently meant to engage on either side.
Translations for cable's length