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handspan

noun

Etymology

From hand + span.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-✻ — “to stretch”
  2. inherited from *spannō✻ — “span, handbreadth”
  3. inherited from spann
  4. inherited from spanne
  5. compounded as handspan — “hand + span”

Definitions

  1. The distance between the outstretched tips of the little finger and thumb when used as a…

    The distance between the outstretched tips of the little finger and thumb when used as a unit of measurement.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for handspan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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