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A unit of distance, = 6,087 feet. Also called a telegraph knot. 6,087 feet is the distance traveled by a ship in an hour at a speed of one Admiralty knot.
Latimer Clark.
A Dictionary of Metric and Other Useful Measures.
London: E & F.N. Spon, 1891.
Page 55.
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