swordslength
swordslength is the alternative form of swordlength.
Meaning of swordlength
Noun
swordlength (plural swordlengths)
- A distance equal to the length of a sword.
- All danger of that, however—which (though of course I should have done it unhesitatingly,) would have been not a little disagreeable in a country where respectability is measured by swordlengths just as silk is by yardlengths—is entirely over.1852 June 24, John Ruskin, edited by John Lewis Bradley, Ruskin’s Letters from Venice, 1851-1852, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press...
Forms of swordslength
| plural | swordslengths |
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Origin of swordslength
From sword + -s- + length.
Questions about swordslength
- What is swordslength the alternative form of?
- Swordslength is the alternative form of swordlength.
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