Mile
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MILE, measure. A length of a thousand paces, or seventeen hundred and sixty yards, or five thousand two hundred and eighty feet. It contains eight furlongs, every furlong being forty poles, and each pole sixteen feet six inches. 2 Stark. R. 89.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.