What is "fingerbreadth"

Usage examples of "fingerbreadth".

The cliff had been cut down to form an evenly sloping stone ramp and then roughened by transverse grooves, a fingerbreadth apart, to provide traction for the feet of men and animals.

Fingerbreadth by Fingerbreadth, almost holding his breath, he teased the chest out from under the bed.

Like as twins they were, though, the man called Che Fan was perhaps a fingerbreadth the taller.

The most calloused trull would do it, given a fingerbreadth of encouragement, and other women took even less.

Now his sword came out, its point stopping a fingerbreadth from the beaked nose of the fourth man.

Kathryn, who liked a fingerbreadth of Metaxa on raw nights, sitting up in bed to read and sip, her mouth warm with it, later, in the dark.

The wheel moved a fingerbreadth, then a fingerbreadth more, with a shriek of metal forced into motion after aeons of inactivity.

Because the limited representations of a map are thus deceptive, it may take a journeyer longer to travel the last little fingerbreadth of distance across a map than it took him to travel all the many handspans previous.

Alain ran his hands over each fingerbreadth of the hull while Henri replaced the leather lining and hemp rope that secured the rudder to the boss.

Then he fished around in almost every other pocket before finally dragging out a tall white candle marked with red bands a fingerbreadth apart.

He browsed lean books always, half a fingerbreadth or less, choosing poems to read based on length and width.

The Shvenic sword came out of the scabbard only a few fingerbreadths and then stuck fast.