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Handbreadth

noun
1.
Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.  Synonym: handsbreadth.





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"Handbreadth" Quotes from Famous Books



... the time of waiting is at the longest very short. And when the perfect fruition is come, and we enter into the great spaces of Eternity, it will seem as an handbreadth. ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren
... skin, which yields him the means of gratifying all his wishes. But its surface represents the duration of the proprietor's life; and for every satisfied desire the skin shrinks in proportion to the intensity of fruition, until at length life and the last handbreadth of the peau de chagrin disappear with the gratification of ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley


Words linked to "Handbreadth" :   hand, linear unit, linear measure


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