handsbreadth

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

handsbreadths plural

词源

From hand + -s- + breadth.
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