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straw-breadth, straw's breadth Now rare.
The breadth of a straw. Formerly often referred to as a typically small distance.
α1577Grange Golden Aphrod. etc. S iv, Yet I truste yee will accepte of me for my well meanyng, who am not therein a strawe bredth incomparable to Cleanthes. 1596Harington Anat. Metam. Aiax L iiij, This skrew must..appeare through the planke not aboue a straw-breadth on the right hand. 1676Mace Musick's Mon. 60 Leaving about a Straw⁓bredth or two betwixt Paper and Paper. 1722Tickell Kensington Gard. 310 More tall he seems to rise, And struts a straw-breadth nearer to the skies. 1730T. Boston Mem. vii. (1899) 153 There was a spit..sticking in the wall of the house, with the small end of it outmost. I rushed inadvertently my face on it, and the wound I got was about a straw-breadth beneath the eye. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxiii, Awaiting till the sword destined to slay him crept out of the scabbard gradually, and as it were by straw-breadths.
β1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iv. vii. (1592) 713 Christians..do not..go a strawes bredth from the diuine scriptures. |