Crossword clues for handsbreadth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handsbreadth \handsbreadth\ n. any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.
Syn: handbreath.
Wiktionary
n. a small distance
WordNet
n. any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand [syn: handbreadth]
Usage examples of "handsbreadth".
The swordpoint feinted even closer to my eyes, then moved a small handsbreadth away.
Morgenes' words were painstakingly copied in black root-ink on cheap parchment, beaten so thin a candle flame held a handsbreadth away might puff it into flame.
The fluid seemed to be slowly boiling, so that the meniscus was divided into thousands, or millions, of hexagonal convection cells perhaps a handsbreadth across.
On the opposite side of the hearth, Uaithne stared fixedly at a point two handsbreadths above Aoife’s head.
He gripped the spear shaft tightly just above the entry wound, then again two handsbreadths up.
Instead, tapestries covered the scars and scribbles of centuries of occupation by spacers and leaseholders who were themselves only a handsbreadth above poverty.