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Noun Concept
Categories: Imperial units, Human-based units of measurement, Customary units of measurement in the United States, Horses, Units of length
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hand  hands  hand-breadth  hands high  Palmus maior
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A unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses WordNet 3.0
English:
unit
length
measurement
unit of length
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A unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to 4 in. Wikipedia
A measurement, primarily of a horse's height Wikipedia Disambiguation
Unit of length Wikidata
The two hands of a human being considered collectively. OmegaWiki
Four inches, a hand's breadth. Wiktionary
Hand's breadth. Wiktionary (translation)
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The horse stood 20 hands WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
handbreadth
British Imperial System
obsolete unit of length
MEASURED PHYSICAL QUANTITY
length
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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hand
Wikipedia
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hand (unit)
Wikidata
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hand
Wiktionary
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hand
OmegaWiki
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hands
Wikipedia Redirections
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hand-breadth, Hand (length), hands (horses), hands high, Palmus maior, Palmus major

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