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mile noun Miles. (used after a numeral or other quantifying word). [reflects plural partitive genitive case from Old English]
1863 Revis CW Letters (June 23) we was ordered to talehomey and started to go thair and got 30 mile below clinton and the orders was counter manded. 1939 Hall Coll (Bradley Fork NC) I first located on the little east fork in Sevier County, five mile above Sevierville. 1969 GSMNP-42:15 Old man Will Woody was up three mile and a half from there. 1974 GSMNP-51:6 I went to Whittier a lot of times, from home up there ten mile to Whittier horseback to get a doctor, you see, no telephones or nothing. 1998 Dante OHP-12 [The train] came up Chaney Creek, and I’d say probably about six mile from the mill.