Definition of "nine-mile" []

• A geologic depression of southwest Asia and eastern Africa extending from the Jordan River valley to Mozambique. The region is marked by a series of faults caused by volcanic action.

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• "Work at Presque Isle was far enough along that gangs could be shifted southward down the new nine-mile portage road to what became Fort Le Boeuf present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania."
• "Does their father take them boating on a nine-mile lake?"
• "My journal reflects that I found the day's nine-mile hike to be "terrific.""