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thumbsbreadth

noun

Etymology

From thumb + -s- + breadth.

  1. inherited from bredthe
  2. formed as thumbsbreadth — “thumb + -s- + breadth”

Definitions

  1. The width of a thumb, as a unit of measure.

The neighborhood

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