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footbreadth

noun

Etymology

From foot + breadth. Compare Middle English fote-brede.

  1. inherited from bredthe
  2. compounded as footbreadth — “foot + breadth”

Definitions

  1. The breadth of a foot

    The breadth of a foot; used as a measure.

    • Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
    • Wherewith at a stroke he hewed The millstone through and through, And Foot-breadth of Thoralf the Strong, Were neither so broad nor so long

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA