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handsbreadth

noun

Etymology

From hand + -s- + breadth.

  1. inherited from bredthe
  2. formed as handsbreadth — “hand + -s- + breadth”

Definitions

  1. a small distance

    • The provinces of Holland and Zealand were stanch and true, but the inequality of the contest between a few brave men, upon that handsbreadth of territory, and the powerful Spanish Empire, seemed to render the issue hopeless.

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