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n. (plural of handbreadth English)
Usage examples of "handbreadths".
The faithful Moon was a few handbreadths above the horizon, bright and full and tropical behind palm frond silhouettes.
He was a half-head shorter than any of the other of the dwarves, and perhaps two handbreadths broader across the shoulders.
It was about two handbreadths across, not of terribly high quality, probably cut from a leather food sack of some sort.
Behold, Thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is nothin’ in Thy sight.
A dozen leaves two handbreadths wide and as much as twenty feet long trailed across the shingle from each trunk, covering much of the ground despite the sparseness of individual plants.
His neck is twenty-one and three-quarter inches around, and his knobby head is three handbreadths wide.