单词 | halberd length |
释义 | > as lemmashalberd length halberd length n. a distance equivalent to the length of a halberd (sense 1a).In quots. 1957 and 1997, specifically 6½ feet (approx. 1.9 metres), the halberd having been fixed at this length by the early 18th cent. ΚΠ ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xix. sig. F j v The distance betwene GE 30 halberde lenghtes. 1957 R. S. Quimby Background Napoleonic Warfare i. 19 There was a means of regulating the distance between ranks to two halberd lengths. 1997 J. A. Lynn Giant of Grand Siècle (2006) xiv. 481 Thirteen feet, or two halberd lengths, separated the ranks. < as lemmas |
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