“handbreadth”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

handbreadth

释义

ˈhandbreadth
Also 6 handbreth, -breath, 8– hand's breadth, handsbreadth.
A Unit of lineal measure in many countries and periods, founded on the width of the adult human hand, a palm; formerly estimated as one-fourth of a foot, but now as four inches.
1535Coverdale 1 Kings vii. 26 The thicknesse was an handbreth.1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 56 A Hande breadth. Conteyninge in it 4 Fingers. A Fote. Conteyninge in it 4 Hande breadth.1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxvi. 267 Within nine hand-bredths of the Water.1843Macaulay Lays Anc. Rome, Horatius xlv, The good sword stood a hand-breadth out Behind the Tuscan's head.1875G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recollect. iv. (1879) 65 A handsbreadth behind the girths.

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