cubit

«cubit» in Mova's school dictionary: an old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cubits; old use)

meaning for a pupil

(old use) A cubit is an old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about 45 cm. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales a cubit measures a fish, a horn or a heap of grain

examples

• The fish was only a cubit long. tree →
• The horn is about a cubit long. tree →
• They have cleared only one cubit of the granary. tree →

note

a cubit is a length, not a count of things; to change cubits to centimetres, multiply by about 45.

In the corpora

• Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
• Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
• And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
• The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
• And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cubit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.