shaftment

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A unit of length, 6 - 6½ inches or 2 palms, i.e. 15.24 cm, the width of the fist and outstretched thumb of a standard archer

The shaftment is the width of the palm and the outstretched thumb.

Quality or state of being shady
One who, or that which, shades
in a picture or a drawing
A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation
A measure of about six inches
In a shady manner
That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc
Being without shade; not shaded
Full of shade; shady
Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representin
Act or process of making a shade
A shaftment
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