Sentence example with the word 'cubit'

cubit

Definition n. an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm

Last update: June 14, 2015


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Its dimensions are given as 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad and 30 cubits high (cubit =18-22 in.).   [Please select]

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Cubit equals six palms or twenty-four fingers, 74.   [Please select]

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Yes, it would be magnificent and enough to add a cubit to our stature.   [Please select]

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Personal mention of any of the Sophisticates added a cubit to reputation.   [Please select]

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I saw likewise other fish about a cubit in length, that had heads like owls.   [Please select]

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Their cubit contents are not half those of the average eggs of _S.   [Please select]

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I saw likewise other fishes, about a cubit in length, that had heads like owls.   [Please select]

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They have spears (λὁγχη or λογχἱς) having an iron blade a cubit long, and sometimes more.   [Please select]

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Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit onto his stature.   [Please select]

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[41] A cubit is the length from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger, and therefore an indefinite measure, but modern usage takes it as representing a length of seventeen to eighteen inches.   [Please select]

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_, 80-84, 94, 97, 124, 152, 179, 229, 397, 615, 616, 617 Crustaceans, i, 25 Crystal Palace, ii, 437 Crystals, i, 9, 17 Ctesiphon (tes’ i fon), i, 618, 622, 624, 626, 634, ii, 22, 31, 82, 129, 522 Cuba, ii, 193, 451, 506 Cubit, length of, i, 290 Culture, Aryan, i, 171-82; Heliolithic, i, 147-49, 162, 171, 177, 184, 188, 196, 201, 207-13, 223, 415; Neolithic, i, 104-5, 107-8, 110 _sqq.   [Please select]

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