cubit

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 279 words | Copyright

cubit an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. The word comes (in Middle English) from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’.

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