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shaftmound

shaftmound is the alternative form of shaftment.

Meaning of shaftment

Noun

shaftment (plural shaftments)

  1. An obsolete unit of length defined as 6 inches, which equals 2 palms or ²⁄₃ span; today 6 inches equals exactly 15.24 cm. (Before the 12th century, a shaftment was defined as 6+¹⁄₂ inches.)
  2. Traditionally the width of the fist and outstretched thumb.
    • A shaftment is the width of the palm and the outstretched thumb.

Forms of shaftmound

pluralshaftmounds

Questions about shaftmound

What is shaftmound the alternative form of?
Shaftmound is the alternative form of shaftment.

Words near shaftmound in the dictionary

  1. shaftmen
  2. shaftment
  3. shaftments
  4. shaftmond
  5. shaftmonds
  6. shaftmound
  7. shaftmounds
  8. Shaftoe
  9. Shaftoes
  10. shaftoside
  11. shafts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaftmound (page history and authors); shaftment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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