spann
- noun [ feminine ]
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Span vel handbred
palmus,
- Wrt. Voc. i. 43, 52.
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Wæs se líchoma sponne lengra ðære ðrýh
invenerunt corpus mensura palmi longius esse sarcofago,
- Bd. 4, 11; S. 580, 5.
- [O. H. Ger. spanna; f. cubitus: Icel. spönn; f. a span.] Cf. ge-spann.
Bosworth, Joseph. “spann.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/28402.
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