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Definition of handspan in English: handspannounˈhan(d)spanˈhan(d)span The maximum distance between the tips of the thumb and little finger, taken as the basis of a measurement equal to 9 inches. the boat was hardly more than a handspan above the waterline Example sentencesExamples - He held out an arm to show how the end of the sleeve hung two handspans below his knuckles.
- ‘That was Matthew's race,’ said Grobler after Pinsent, Cracknell, Coode and Williams had beaten the Canadians by a handspan.
- It's about a handspan as far as wings, it's orangey, and it has dark markings on its wings.
- The guard was also a few handspans thicker and had quite the menacing expression.
- He once again kept up the flow of meaningless but soothing chatter as his hands passed over every handspan of the glossy hide.
- Eiji Sanjuro was about a handspan shorter than Gabriel, but was built like a bamboo stalk, tough, slender, and powerful.
- Lang's handspan covers 12 notes on the piano keyboard.
- But what it didn't have in width, it had in height, being about three hundred handspans high filled to the brim with books.
- Ours are longer by a handspan, sometimes a hand's length.
- The skull was almost a handspan wide, the pike's six rows of curving, pointed teeth distinct, as were the teeth that cover the upper surface of its tongue like barbs.
- Use your hand span to measure the distance around a tree trunk.
- Now, the elephant on your desk fits your fist with a handspan's room around, but is perhaps a thousand times as responsive as Engelbart's original, with a different function keyed to each finger and divided further by context.
- A good rule of thumb when buying or constructing a flight cage for large parrots is that the width should be twice the wingspan, plus a handspan.
- Why is a large hand span a useful human adaptation?
- It's body was partly obscured by two large wings, each as wide as Peter's handspan, which seemed to be a sort of dappled brown-yellow colour, speckled with rich blood reds and blackberry purples about the jagged edges.
- Well, we shall make them pay for every handspan.
Definition of handspan in US English: handspannounˈhan(d)span The maximum distance between the tips of the thumb and little finger, taken as the basis of a measurement equal to 9 inches. the boat was hardly more than a handspan above the waterline Example sentencesExamples - Use your hand span to measure the distance around a tree trunk.
- The guard was also a few handspans thicker and had quite the menacing expression.
- Now, the elephant on your desk fits your fist with a handspan's room around, but is perhaps a thousand times as responsive as Engelbart's original, with a different function keyed to each finger and divided further by context.
- A good rule of thumb when buying or constructing a flight cage for large parrots is that the width should be twice the wingspan, plus a handspan.
- He once again kept up the flow of meaningless but soothing chatter as his hands passed over every handspan of the glossy hide.
- ‘That was Matthew's race,’ said Grobler after Pinsent, Cracknell, Coode and Williams had beaten the Canadians by a handspan.
- Lang's handspan covers 12 notes on the piano keyboard.
- The skull was almost a handspan wide, the pike's six rows of curving, pointed teeth distinct, as were the teeth that cover the upper surface of its tongue like barbs.
- Eiji Sanjuro was about a handspan shorter than Gabriel, but was built like a bamboo stalk, tough, slender, and powerful.
- It's about a handspan as far as wings, it's orangey, and it has dark markings on its wings.
- But what it didn't have in width, it had in height, being about three hundred handspans high filled to the brim with books.
- It's body was partly obscured by two large wings, each as wide as Peter's handspan, which seemed to be a sort of dappled brown-yellow colour, speckled with rich blood reds and blackberry purples about the jagged edges.
- Why is a large hand span a useful human adaptation?
- Well, we shall make them pay for every handspan.
- He held out an arm to show how the end of the sleeve hung two handspans below his knuckles.
- Ours are longer by a handspan, sometimes a hand's length.
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