footbreadth

English

Etymology

foot +‎ breadth

Noun

footbreadth (plural not attested)

  1. The breadth of a foot; used as a measure.
    • Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, 2, 5 (print variant, usual spelling is "foot breadth").
      Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for footbreadth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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