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  Shaftment

  The shaftment is a unit of length, 6 - 6½ inches or 2 palms, i.e. 15.24 cm. A shaftment is the width of the fist and outstretched thumb. The lengths of poles, staves, etc. can be easily measured by grasping the bottom of the staff with thumb extended and repeating such hand over hand grips along...
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  Digit

  A digit (lat. finger), when used as a unit of length, is usually a sixteenth of a foot, 0.43"; or 1.905 cm (for the international inch). The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about 2 centimetres. In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as do others based on the human arm:...
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  Mile

  A mile is a unit of length in a number of different systems. In contemporary English, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 1,609.344 meters (1,760 yards = 5,280 feet) or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters (about 6,076 ft 1/8 in). There are many other historical miles, and similar units...
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  Inch

  An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ – a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot. A corresponding unit of area...
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  Span

  A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. In ancient times, a span was considered to be half a cubit. See also: English unit In Slavic languages, the analogue of the span is the piad (in Polish, piędź; in Russian, пядь). It is the...
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  Fathom

  A fathom is a unit of length in the Imperial system (and the derived U.S. customary units), used especially for measuring the depth of water. There are 2 yards (6 feet) in a fathom. Based on the distance between the fingertips of a man's outstretched arms, its size varied slightly depending on...
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  Palm

  A palm, when used as a unit of length, is usually four digits (fingers) or three inches, i.e. 7.62 cm (for the international inch). In English measurements, this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as have others based on the human arm: digit (¼ palm), finger (7/24 palm), hand (4/3 palms), shaftment...
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  Hand

  A hand (or handbreadth) is a unit of measurement of length equal to 4 inches (10.16 cm). It was originally based on the breadth of a male human hand, and is now standardized at 4 inches (10.16 cm). When used to measure height, it is abbreviated "h" (for "hands") or "hh" ("hands high"). Today the...

• League

  A league is a unit of length (or, rarely, area). It was long common in Europe and Latin America, but it is no longer an official unit in any nation. The league most frequently refers to the distance a person or a horse can walk in an hour. However, the league had many different values, as can be...

• Nail

  A nail, when used as a unit, is usually one sixteenth of a certain base unit. In English usage the most common base units were the foot and the yard for length, the acre for area and the (long) hundredweight for mass. (Metric sizes calculated for most common values of the base units today.)