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(obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea. / (obsolete) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.

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kenning

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kenning

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkɛnɪŋ/

Noun

obsolete

(obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea. / (obsolete) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.

Japanese Meaning

視界、眺望；特に遠方の海上の景色 / 視野の広がり、特に海上における範囲；転じて、約20マイル相当の海上距離を示す単位

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From the tower his kenning of the harbor extended for miles, revealing every mast and rope.

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塔の上から見た港の眺めは何マイルも先まで広がり、すべてのマストやロープが見えた。

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(obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.

Touching the moſt remarkeable things of the Country and our proceeding from the 17 of Auguſt 1585. till the 18. of Iune 1586. we made Roanoack our habitation. The vtmoſt of our diſcouery Southward was Secotan as we eſteemed 80. leagues from Roanoacke. The paſſage from thence was thought a broad ſound within the maine, being without kenning of land, yet full of flats and ſhoulds that our Pinnaſſe could not paſſe, […]

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