A (usually approximate and informal) unit of measurement based upon the radial width of the human finger.
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
A small island; an islet.
A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
Any very short distance.
A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
cocky and cheeky
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner