boatslength

English

Etymology

From boat +‎ -s- +‎ length.

Noun

boatslength (plural boatslengths)

1. Alternative form of boatlength.
   • 1985, Beth Carsley Jones, Hall of Sparrows, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 186:

     Those children would grow up to be puffballs too, they’d take up half a boatslength between them.

   • 1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 243:

     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; […]

   • 1996, Russell Coutts, as told to Paul Larsen, Russell Coutts: Course to Victory, Hodder Moa Beckett, →ISBN, page 213:

     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.