"swordslength" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: swordslengths [plural]
Etymology: From sword + -s- + length. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|sword|-s-|length}} sword + -s- + length Head templates: {{en-noun}} swordslength (plural swordslengths)
  1. Alternative form of swordlength. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: swordlength
    Sense id: en-swordslength-en-noun-0hC7NB-C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms interfixed with -s-

Inflected forms

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          "text": "By way of testing the courage of the surrounding manhood, Tomaso made a feinting stomp with one foot, as one does in fence, and the forty men jumped back a swordslength.",
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          "text": "Minch’s bodyguard strode up to Dun Lidjun, his sandals slipping on the loose stones—that is, after all, why the road outside the entrance is gravelly—stopping insolently close to Dun Lidjun, less than a swordslength away. […] With Dun Lidjun within a swordslength of Arefai, brute force would fail.",
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          "ref": "2005, Robert Carter, The Giants’ Dance (The Language of Stones; book two), HarperCollinsPublishers, page 398",
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