Associations to the word «Handsbreadth»

Wiktionary

HANDSBREADTH, noun. A small distance

Dictionary definition

HANDSBREADTH, noun. Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope