Using your body to estimate length your hand. Eight body based units of measurement cubit. From nose to finger tip. The exact length varied according to whose arm was being used and could be from 18 to 22 inches. The quantity and the weight of the substance can be roughly identified. Here are a few more.
The handful measurement of objects using body parts. It probably goes without saying that the unit foot was based on the length of a mans foot. A handful is a rough measurement of the quantity of dry substances that can fit into a cupped hand. Your forearm is about 15 feet 46 centimeters. Stretch out your hand so that the tip of your thumb is as far away as possible from the tip of your pinky. The distance between your nose.
The width of your palm is about 4 inches 10 centimeters. 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. Stretch out the fingers of your hand. The width of your four fingers where they meet. Your forearm from elbow to fingertip. English possesses several measurement words that derive from body parts.
It probably goes without saying that the unit foot was based on the length of a mans foot. Cubit from latin cubitum the elbow a cubit was a measurement based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip. This is the distance from a mans elbow to the tip of his middle finger which would be about 18 inches for the. An average foot is about 12 inches long.
Gallery of Measurement Using Body Parts
