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palmspan

noun
/ˈpɑːmspæn/UK

Etymology

From palm’s (“[of] the inner surface of the hand between the wrist and the fingers”) + span (“the distance between two ends of a thing, especially between those ends furthest apart from each other”).

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

Definitions

  1. A measure of length equivalent to the breadth of the palm of an average human hand.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:palmspan.

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