Meaning of half-mile | Babel Free

Definitions

Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.

Examples

“These trains in the course of their day's work often travel a distance little less than that from London to Glasgow, stopping and starting every half-mile.”

“They were greeted with applause, medals and the skirl of bagpipes from our lone piper - a sound some told us encouraged tired legs for the last half-mile as the pipes could be heard on the mountain.”

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