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Unit of length for Noah
Answer for the clue "Unit of length for Noah ", 5 letters:
cubit
Alternative clues for the word cubit
Word definitions for cubit in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cubit \Cu"bit\ (k[=u]"b[i^]t), n. [L. cubitum, cubitus; elbow, ell, cubit, fr. (because the elbow serves for leaning upon) cubare to lie down, recline; cf. Gr. ky`biton elbow, ky`ptein to bend, stoop, kyfo`s bent, stooping, humpbacked. Cf. Incumbent , Covey ...
Usage examples of cubit.
Each white granite wall stone is an oblong two cubits long, one cubit high, and approximately one thick, from what Lorn can tell.
A low ground mist, no more than a cubit high, covers the grass to the south and west of the waystation, fading away over the salted ground that borders the ward-wall.
Set on the granite floor tiles, just in front of the desk, there is a foot chest, two cubits broad, one cubit high and one deep.
Anything that moves branches a cubit thick and whose power and mass move the entire fallen crown is something that will require more than a single firelance.
The baskets are small, no more than two cubits long and slightly less than a cubit in diameter-small enough to be fastened behind his saddle.
Each page of the book is a cubit in height and two thirds that in width.
The bed of the log cart was nearly a cubit lower than that of the timber wagon.
While the four men loaded the cut logs onto the wagon, Cerryl had continued sawing the smaller lengths of pole pine branches into sections a cubit long, wood for cooking and heat, stacking each length neatly in the pile.
When the long sliding door had but a cubit left to close, Dylert gestured to Cerryl.
He closed the circular catch basin cover, not too much more than half a cubit across.
Two silvers for a scarf barely a cubit and a half long and half that in width?
To the right of the walkway was the drainage way that carried the sewage, the surface of the turbid waters another cubit or so below the walkway.
Once more, Myral repeated the process, and Cerryl tried to capture the feel of it, the constriction and the release as the chaos-fire arced away from the older mage, leaving another circle of clean brick, perhaps a cubit in diameter.
Something protruded from the drainage way, not a great deal, perhaps a half cubit above the water level, and he thought the water level was lower on the other side.
This time the fire arced too low, barely scouring the bricks a cubit above the water level.