seven-inch

[sev-uh n-inch]

noun

a phonograph record seven inches in diameter, usually having one popular song on each side.

Compare twelve-inch.

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Contemporary Examples of seven-inch

The backside of the book offers a seven-inch ruler to gauge the size of any bird viewed.
Book Bag: Terry Tempest Williams’s Birding Bibles
Terry Tempest Williams
March 27, 2013
Bags had grown to this enormous monstrosity, wildly unfunctional, akin to tottering around on seven-inch heels.
Return of the Normal-Size Bag
Misty White Sidell
October 9, 2011
In July 2008, I learned that I had a seven-inch cancerous tumor in my left femur.
Who Will Raise My Daughters?
Bruce Feiler
April 27, 2010

Historical Examples of seven-inch

I hoped it would last, for not three yards away from him, lying on top of the kitchen table, was a seven-inch butcher knife.
The Homicidal Diary
Earl Peirce
Now we turn this upside down and in the top we cut two seven-inch holes, as round as we can make them.
Woodcraft
E. H. (Elmer Harry) Kreps
Suddenly the jackies on the seven-inch gun deck set up a yell of delight.
The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service
Frank Gee Patchin
Reaching the seven-inch turret, they found the place flooded with salt water.
The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service
Frank Gee Patchin
I'll bet that in three shots I could knock the block off the top of that mountain with the seven-inch.
The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service
Frank Gee Patchin