leaguelong

English

Etymology

From league +‎ -long.

Adjective

leaguelong (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Of a league in length.
    • 1868, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, Beatrice and Other Poems (page 199)
      Leaguelong gold seas of life for mortal good
    • 1880, Frederic William Farrar, Ephphatha: Or, The Amelioration of the World (page 291)
      […] the leaguelong reef which forms a barrier in the ocean […]
    • 1890, Parry's Monthly Magazine (volume 6, page 255)
      […] the leaguelong stretches of low-lying, swampy bank, with its interminable barrier of forest […]
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