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encâblure [French]

In France, a unit of length used in nautical settings, formerly = 100 toises = 120 brasses, about 194.88 meters. The encâblure nouvelle, = 200 meters (about 656.18 feet)

Latimer Clark.
A Dictionary of Metric and Other Useful Measures.
London: E & F. N. Spon, 1891.

See under “cable,” page 12.

Édouard Hospitalier.
Formulaire Pratique de l'Electricien.
Paris: G. Masson, 1883.
Page 27.

Annuaire-Almanach de Commerce (1877) pages 2707 and 2708.