kenning

/ˈkɛnɪŋ/

noun

(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.

The kenning of the old sailor was unmatched.

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意味（1）

(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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