Time_Sports. 89 CONNECTTWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE. Baseball's biggest hitters will muscle up and swing for the fences Monday night in the 2016 MLB Home Run Derby. In San Diego's Petco Park, Todd Frazier will look to defend his Derby title, facing off against a field off Derby vets and rookies.
An ancient unit of linear measure, originally equal to the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, or about 17 to 22 inches (43 to 56 centimeters). [Middle English. , from Latin. , cubit, elbow .].
The Near Eastern or Biblical cubit is usually estimated as approximately 457.2 mm (18 in). Epiphanius of Salamis, in his treatise On Weights and Measures, describes how it was customary, in his day, to take the measurement of the biblical cubit: The cubit is a measure, but it is taken from the measure of the forearm.