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Definition of Handsbreadth
1. Noun. Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.
Definition of Handsbreadth
1. Noun. a small distance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handsbreadth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handsbreadth
Literary usage of Handsbreadth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biblical Criticism on the First Fourteen Historical Books of the Old by Samuel Horsley (1820)
"91 Two intervals to angular planks = 2 1 Two angular planks --=13 Total breadth
13 5 •which is one handsbreadth only shorter than our former estimation. ..."
2. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"... or pantaloons ; a w«ui!l£ of handsbreadth between his ear and his beard (or
hair) ; and a „ handsbreadth between the border of his ..."
3. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the
Englishman's. ' I see thou dost not know. Not being of the Law, the matter is ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1892)
"If skunk-cabbage is offensive to the nostrils of men, still has it not drooped
in consequence, but trustfully unfolded its leaf of two handsbreadth. ..."
5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1902)
"... the lower curvature of the stomach is below the umbilicus, sometimes as much
as a handsbreadth. Frequently the umbilicus is the center of a ..."
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