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Meanings of cubit in English
Historical unit of length.
Usage of cubit in English
1
Its description is this:-Inlength it was little less than a cubit.
2
Its breadth on each side was a cubit, but the altitude double.
3
No one had dared to add one cubit to its grey stature.
4
So saying, he chopped off about a cubit of the snake's tail.
5
Now the thickness of the table was not less than half a cubit.
6
A general's stars could not have raised him a cubit in their estimation.
7
The other kind has a broad tail, which is a cubit across sometimes.
8
Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.
9
He cannot by taking thought add one cubit to his stature.
10
I saw arranged round its sides stones one cubit long, all placed upright.
11
Would we have a cubit added to the stature of the Medicean Venus?
12
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit onto his stature?
13
Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?
14
And, who of you, by worrying, can add one cubit to his stature?
15
By taking thought we cannot add a cubit to the height of our happiness.
16
And this is why we cannot of ourselves add one cubit to our stature.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Cubit through the time
Cubit across language varieties
United Kingdom
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