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ˈthree-inch, a.
Measuring three inches in length, thickness, etc. (in first quot. humorous). Also in comb., as three-inch-thick, three-inch-wide. So three-inched |-ɪnʃt| a. rare.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 27 Away you three inch foole, I am no beast. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 9 All the Orlope to be layd with square three inch plancke. 1839Ure Dict. Arts, etc. 927 A three-inch-thick plank. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 399 A formidable knife..tapering from a three-inched hilt to the finest point. 1846J. Baxter's Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 153 In Suffolk they are hoed..with three-inch hoes, having handles not above two feet in length. |