What body part is as long as the distance from your elbow to your wrist?

Nose?
Hand?
Thigh?
Calf?
Foot?
Width of shoulders?
Other body part?

And the answer is not Forearm in case there's any wisecracks here.

 

It's the foot Kindred.

 

Foot

 

Other body part?

 

... and it is roughly one meter from your nose to your middle finger arm outstretched ... a very old method of measuring material ... I know from experience having made all my clothes at one time, including low-cut jeans.

 

When I was taught that it was one yard

 

Behave!

 

Something to do with the length of a long bow arrow, or maybe I'm in cloud cookoo land.

 

Pre metrication, I used to be able to perform a perfectly spaced 1 yard step to measure stuff without a tape measure, but then had to add a 90 degrees width of my footwear until I got the knack of adding that extra oomph to get 1 metre paces.

 

Foot, unless some one has a 12inch hand span

 

One yard ... one metre ... mais ou menos ...

 

It can't be foot because I've just given myself cramp trying to measure and my foot is much smaller

 

A long bow arrow Pete! Are you suggesting that "M" is from a completely different era?

 

Yep..I've just re measured (minus cramp) it is the foot