Talk:inched

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Rfv-sense X 2:

1. Divided into inches.

#Having the length of a certain number of inches

Gradable? predicate? in both senses? DCDuring Holiday Greetings! 00:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

The second one is okay if we permit compounds. See [1] (four-inched bridge, claws, heel, mesh). Equinox 00:43, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

As I see it, we don't need an adjective entry if the word is neither gradable (or comparative) nor can serve as a predicate. Is serving in a compound yet another marker of a word being an adjective as opposed to being a past participle? Are there other markers? Are all past participles automatically adjectives? DCDuring Holiday Greetings! 01:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure sense #2 isn't a past participle; I'm not familiar with it (I'd just say "four-inch" etc.), but I assume it's analogous to the "eyed" of "blue-eyed", the "legged" of "three-legged", and so on, where the "-ed" means basically "having". (See sense 3 at -ed.) —Ruakh_TALK 03:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

For the record, 'four-inched bridges' appears in King Lear, with reference to riding horses over them (and feeling proud of the feat). The image is reprised in Harriet & Sophia Lee's (not Chaucer's) "Canterbury Tales" (1857) as 'a four-inched bridge'. Pingku 13:13, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Let me withdraw the second rfv-sense. I'm still skeptical about the first sense. DCDuring Holiday Greetings! 04:51, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

First sense RFV failed, removed. —Ruakh_TALK 02:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)