Translation for "halsumfang" to english
Halsumfang
noun
Translation examples
Der Henker John Ellis suchte ihn auf – dunkel gekleidet und in Begleitung eines nervösen jungen Assistenten, der sich als Robert Baxter vorstellte –, um seine Maße zu nehmen, da er, wie er Roger in aller Seelenruhe erklärte, anhand von Größe, Gewicht und Halsumfang die Höhe des Galgens und Dicke des Seils bestimme.
John Ellis, the hangman, dressed as always in dark colors and accompanied by his assistant, a young man who introduced himself as Robert Baxter and seemed nervous and frightened, came to take his measurements—height, weight, and neck size—in order, he explained without constraint, to determine the height of the gallows and the thickness of the rope.
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