Swordlength
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A distance equal to the length of a sword.
"All danger of that, however—which (though of course I should have done it unhesitatingly,) would have been not a little disagreeable in a country where respectability is measured by swordlengths just as silk is by yardlengths—is entirely over."
Example
More examples"All danger of that, however—which (though of course I should have done it unhesitatingly,) would have been not a little disagreeable in a country where respectability is measured by swordlengths just as silk is by yardlengths—is entirely over."
Etymology
From sword + length. Compare Middle English swerde-length, swerd lengthe.
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