Length · 45 inches · cloth
Ell
A cloth-length, the reach from shoulder to the opposite wrist, standardised at last to forty-five inches. Every country kept its own, so an ell of silk in Antwerp was never quite an ell of silk in London.
Length · 45 inches · cloth
A cloth-length, the reach from shoulder to the opposite wrist, standardised at last to forty-five inches. Every country kept its own, so an ell of silk in Antwerp was never quite an ell of silk in London.