Swordlength

Quick meaning: Swordlength is a noun meaning A distance equal to the length of a sword.

Meaning

A distance equal to the length of a sword.

Example Sentences

A swordlength away, he halted.

‘Only if we choose to halt here,’ said Sken-Pitilkin, who had matched the rigours of Guest Gulkan’s horse-coursing, and sat saddled a swordlength distant from him now.

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.

I believe they did introduce a rule there some time ago that members were not to bring swords or other arms into the Chamber. In fact, is the distance between the two front benches not so calculated that it is more than two swordlengths apart?

Word Forms

• swordlengths
• swordslength

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