Usually means: Ancient unit of length measurement.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word cubit:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cubit: Merriam-Webster
  2. cubit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cubit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cubit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cubit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cubit, cubit: Wordnik
  7. cubit: Wiktionary
  8. cubit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cubit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cubit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cubit, cubit: Dictionary.com
  12. cubit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. CUBIT, Cubit (disambiguation), Cubit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cubit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cubit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cubit: Rhymezone
  17. Cubit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cubit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cubit: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cubit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cubit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cubit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cubit-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cubit: Encyclopedia

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cubit: Easton Bible
  2. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Cubit: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cubit: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
noun:  (historical) Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.
noun:  (anatomy, archaic) Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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