英语词汇“handbreadth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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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