half-mile

English

Noun

half-mile (plural half-miles)

1. Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
   • 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:

     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.

References

• “half-mile”, in Collins English Dictionary.