Handful (unit of measure)
The handful is a unit of volume for bulk goods , less often for liquids. Like the pinch or the point of a knife , it is a deliberately approximate measure, depending on the circumstances, in kitchen language and in historical pharmacy language.
definition
A handful is the amount that can fit in the cupped hand. The Latin term manipula for handful has been incorporated into the historical apothecary measure Manipel , which is of equal importance . The Greek drachma is derived from the volume measure “handful”.
A double handful (ie the amount that has in the two hands held together Place) was used as Gaspe designated or Gäspe.
According to the Duden , the expression handful in the figurative sense can refer to an indefinitely small amount or number (“a handful of spectators”) or, according to the fingers of one hand, to the number five.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Karl Kraft: German-Latin Lexicon , Klein, Leipzig and Merseburg 1829, Vol. 1, p. 963.
- ↑ https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Handvoll , accessed on April 2, 2018