swordlength

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

swordlengths plural swordslength alternative

词源

From sword + length. Compare Middle English swerde-length, swerd lengthe.
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