palmspan
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]palm’s (“[of] the inner surface of the hand between the wrist and the fingers”) + span (“the distance between two ends of a thing, especially between those ends furthest apart from each other”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]palmspan (plural palmspans)
- A measure of length equivalent to the breadth of the palm of an average human hand.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:palmspan.
Translations
[edit]measure of length equivalent to a palm’s breadth
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