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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length. · Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm. · Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
From Middle English cubite, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cubitus, covado, and codo.
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