noun
- plural of cubit; ancient units of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger
Usage: historical
Examples
- The ark was to be built three hundred cubits long.
- Ancient Egyptian cubits varied slightly in length.
- The temple measured fifty cubits in width.
- Biblical measurements were often given in cubits.
- A cubit was roughly eighteen inches, so ten cubits equaled about fifteen feet.
- The wall stood twenty cubits high according to the ancient text.