"boatslength" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: boatslengths [plural]
Etymology: From boat + -s- + length. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|boat|-s-|length}} boat + -s- + length Head templates: {{en-noun}} boatslength (plural boatslengths)
  1. Alternative form of boatlength. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: boatlength
    Sense id: en-boatslength-en-noun--felcd44 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms interfixed with -s-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1985, Beth Carsley Jones, Hall of Sparrows, Piatkus, page 186",
          "text": "Those children would grow up to be puffballs too, they’d take up half a boatslength between them.",
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          "ref": "1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 243",
          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1996, Russell Coutts, as told to Paul Larsen, Russell Coutts: Course to Victory, Hodder Moa Beckett, page 213",
          "text": "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.",
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