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legspan

noun

Etymology

From leg + 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 legspan — “leg + span”

Definitions

  1. The distance between the tips of the legs of a spider furthest from each other -…

    The distance between the tips of the legs of a spider furthest from each other - generally diagonally

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for legspan. 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