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German term or phrase:
eine Handbreit Speck
English translation:
a hand's breadth of bacon
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From an old letter. How would I best translate "Handbreit"? And I would assume it refers to the thickness of the bacon?
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| 4 +3 | a hand's breadth of bacon |
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| 5 | "hand-width, the width of a hand" |
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a hand's breadth of bacon
... and a foot of sausage and an armful of eggs ...
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"hand-width, the width of a hand"
Yes, it's about the thickness of the bacon. It means something like hand-width, the width of a hand, but I don't know the right word in english, if it even exists.
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