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Hand (unit)

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594: 289: 269:. Thus, a horse that measures 60 inches is 15 hands high (15 Ă— 4 = 60) and a horse halfway between 15 and 16 hands is 15.2 hands, or 62 inches tall (15 Ă— 4 + 2 = 62) Because the subdivision of a hand is a base 4 system, a horse 64 inches high is 16.0 hands high, not 15.4. A designation of "15.5 hands" is not halfway between 15 and 16 hands, but rather reads 15 hands and five inches, an impossibility in a base 4 radix numbering system, where a hand is four inches. 47: 1134:
The new world of words: or, Universal English dictionary. Containing an account of the original or proper sense, and various significations of all hard words derived from other languages. Together with a brief and plain explication of all terms relating to any of the arts and sciences; to which is
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gives the same, three inches for the Hand's-breadth, and four for the "Handful, or simply, Hand", but adds "The hand among horse-dealers, &c. is four-fingers' breadth, being the fist clenched, whereby the height of a horse is measured", thus equating "hand" with both the palm and the fist.
570:. c. 13), but some confusion between the various types of hand measurement, and particularly between the hand and the handsbreadth, appears to have persisted. Phillips's dictionary of 1706 gives four inches for the length of the handful or hand, and three inches for the handsbreadth; 262:"Hands" may be abbreviated to "h", or "hh". The "hh" form is sometimes interpreted as standing for "hands high". When spoken aloud, hands are stated by numbers, 15.0 is "fifteen hands", 15.2 is alternately "fifteen-two" or "fifteen hands, two inches", and so on. 700:
on or off. In the United Kingdom, official measurement of horses is overseen by the Joint Measurement Board (JMB). For JMB purposes, the shoes must be removed and the hooves correctly prepared for shoeing prior to measurement.
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conversion. It may be abbreviated to "h" or "hh". Although measurements between whole hands are usually expressed in what appears to be decimal format, the subdivision of the hand is not decimal but is in
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are in quarters of a hand, which are inches. Thus, 62 inches is fifteen and a half hands, or 15.2 hh (normally said as "fifteen-two", or occasionally in full as "fifteen hands two inches").
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each. Five digits are equal to a hand, with thumb; and six to a closed fist. The royal cubit measured approximately 525 mm, so the width of the ancient Egyptian hand was about 94 mm.
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In those countries where hands are the usual unit for measuring horse height, inches rather than hands are commonly used in the measurement of smaller equines including
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Encyclopædia Perthensis; or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, etc., intended to supersede the use of other books of reference, Volume 16
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To convert inches to hands, the number in inches is divided by four, then the remainder is added after the
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mentions "A hand breadth (palmus), the breadth of the four fingers of the hand, or three inches", but the
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A horse is measured from the ground to the top of the highest non-variable point of the skeleton, the
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The hand is a traditional unit in the UK. It was standardised at four inches by a statute of King
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or handbreadth, and in modern translations may be rendered as "handbreadth" or "three inches".
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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in non-Western Cultures
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of 1816 gives under Palm (4): "A hand, or measure of lengths comprising three inches".
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Ancient Egyptian Science, A Source Book. Volume 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
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standardized to 4 in (101.6 mm). It is used to measure the height of
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and the UK. In other parts of the world, including continental Europe and in
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hand, either with or without the thumb, or on the height of a clenched fist.
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The hand (2) and palm (3) measurements shown, among others, on a human hand
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The hand, sometimes also called a handbreadth or handsbreadth, is an
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the hand measurement, as for example in the Vision of the Temple,
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history being from original drawings by Edwards and others
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competition in the US, a horse can be measured with
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Customary units of measurement in the United States
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(1706) 1981: 1967: 1389: 1375: 1024: 1022: 588: 45: 1135:added, the interpretation of proper names 423:108 mm      407:525 mm      26:For the handbreadth or handsbreadth, see 1147: 1111: 833:. London: A & C Black. p. 444. 798: 796: 794: 792: 790: 788: 786: 784: 782: 592: 575:Similarly, Wright's 1831 translation of 515:19 mm      477:75 mm      439:94 mm      287: 1312: 1306: 1280: 1107: 1105: 1055: 1049: 1028: 1019: 920: 918: 828: 308:, originally based on the breadth of a 2502: 1337: 1335: 1230: 1228: 1141: 933:. 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For the handspan, see 1262:"About Miniature Mules" 589:Use in measuring horses 582:Encyclopædia Perthensis 2377:Pounds per square inch 1814:Pounds per square inch 1121:. London: R. Phillips. 616: 329:is divided into seven 301: 2013:Thousandth of an inch 1426:Thousandth of an inch 1005:. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 596: 291: 21:Hand (disambiguation) 2453:Ton of refrigeration 2403:British thermal unit 1830:British thermal unit 855:"How big is a hand?" 716:List of horse breeds 404:7 palms or 28 digits 364:Imperial equivalent 19:For other uses, see 2469:American wire gauge 2443:Pound-foot (torque) 2428:Foot-pound (energy) 1294:on 16 November 2012 1242:on 7 September 2019 1087:New Century Version 970:. 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Index

Hand (disambiguation)
Palm (unit)
Span (unit)

Unit system
Imperial
US
Length
SI
SI
unit of measurement
length
horses
Australia
Canada
Ireland
United Kingdom
United States
human
international inch
imperial form
metric
base 4
radix point
radix point
Ancient Egyptian units of measurement

Museo Egizio
Turin
anthropic unit

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