Brewer's: Length

(A). Forty-two lines. This is a theatrical term; an actor says he has one, two, or more lengths in his part, and, if written out for him, the scribe is paid by the length.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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