Celeb Body measurements Info

The width of your four fingers where they meet. It probably goes without saying that the unit foot was based on the length of a mans foot. Stretch out the fingers of your hand. From nose to finger tip. Stretch out your hand so that the tip of your thumb is as far away as possible from the tip of your pinky. The quantity and the weight of the substance can be roughly identified.

A handful is a rough measurement of the quantity of dry substances that can fit into a cupped hand. An average foot is about 12 inches long. Cubit from latin cubitum the elbow a cubit was a measurement based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip. Eight body based units of measurement cubit. The width of your palm is about 4 inches 10 centimeters. It probably goes without saying that the unit foot was based on the length of a mans foot.

The distance between your nose. The exact length varied according to whose arm was being used and could be from 18 to 22 inches. Your forearm is about 15 feet 46 centimeters. The handful measurement of objects using body parts. Here are a few more. Your forearm from elbow to fingertip.

Quinaria the cross sectional area of a pipe created from a flat sheet of lead 5 digits wide stremma the amount of land a person can plow in a day. Using your body to estimate length your hand. English possesses several measurement words that derive from body parts. This is the distance from a mans elbow to the tip of his middle finger which would be about 18 inches for the.