English Explanatory Dictionary

sillometer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A 19th-century device for measuring the speed of a ship without using a log-line.

Word forms

sillometer sillometers

Etymology

Borrowed from French siller (“to make way”) + -meter.

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