nautical chain

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   a nautical unit of length (15 ft)

   Broaderchain

Questions about nautical chain

What does nautical chain mean?

nautical chain means "a nautical unit of length (15 ft)".

Is nautical chain a common word?

nautical chain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.