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Handsbreadth

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Noun
  1. 1
    a small distance

    "The provinces of Holland and Zealand were stanch and true, but the inequality of the contest between a few brave men, upon that handsbreadth of territory, and the powerful Spanish Empire, seemed to render the issue hopeless."

  2. 2
    any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand wordnet

Etymology

From hand + -s- + breadth.

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