footbreadth

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noun

The breadth of a foot; used as a measure.

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Meanings

nounfootbreadth (plural footbreadths)

plural footbreadths

  1. The breadth of a foot; used as a measure.

    Wherewith at a stroke he hewed The millstone through and through, And Foot-breadth of Thoralf the Strong, Were neither so broad nor so long

    1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Sage of King Olaf”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC
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    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.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 2:5

Origin

From foot + breadth. Compare Middle English fote-brede.

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footbreadth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footbreadth

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “footbreadth,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footbreadth.

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