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handbreadth

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hand·breadth  (hndbrdth) also hand's-breadth or hand's breadth (hndz-)
n.
A linear measurement approximating the width of the palm of the hand, from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.25 to 10 centimeters).
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Noun1.handbreadth - any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand
handsbreadth
linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length
hand - a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses; "the horse stood 20 hands"
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A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
They were eloquent in their dis- tress; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against (where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground), that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting; so they patiently wrought until, with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of shel- tered logs, they coaxed the fire to burn again.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
there are times when the great universe, Like cloth in some unskilful dyer's vat, Shrivels into a handbreadth, and perchance That time is now
A Florentine Tragedy by Wilde, Oscar View in context
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