inch

edetä hitaasti, hivuttautua, siirtyä tuuma tuumalta

tuuma A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
puhekieltä The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
puhekieltä A very short distance.

"Dont move an inch!"''

Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.

Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.

The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.

He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.

The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.