(a) A chip or slip of wood, a sliver, splinter; -- often in prov. expressions; (b) a roofing shingle; a narrow slat of wood; -- also coll.; spon brod (nail), a nail for fastening shingles; -- usu……

(a) A unit of length variously reckoned as corresponding to the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle or the little finger when the hand is fully extended, a span, hand's……