Definitions
the act of sitting or standing astride
Word origin
From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”).
Used in a sentence
“He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.”
“"Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain and storms lessen a mountain top by a span in thickness?"”
“Yet not to Earth's contracted Span, Thy Goodneſs let me bound; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“distance across”4 letters
02“Length across”4 letters
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