hand-ˈbroad, a.
Of the width of a hand.
| 1612–15 Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xviii. viii, A hand⁓broad cloud. a 1711 Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 10 The hand-broad Cloud shall the expanse bedew. 1865 Kingsley Herew. iii, Ill-lighted by a hand-broad window. |