Meaning of palmo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. palmo, Spanish span, traditional Spanish unit of length
   historical, masculine
2. pitch and toss, a game in which coins are thrown at a mark
   masculine

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Examples

“1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133”

He had a handspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a handspan, and half a handspan in the nose; and in the front he had one handspan and a little more

“Et se algũu quiser dar algũu pano de lenço para cobrir o altar de Santiago, deueo a dar de noue palmos en ancho et de viinte et hũu en longo.”

And if anyone would want to give a cloth of linen for covering Saint Jame's altar, it must be nine handspans in wide and twenty-one in long

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