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Horses are measured in hands. They are measured from the ground up to their withers(the crest at the base of the neck). A hand equals 4 inches or about 10cm. Horses are measured in hands because back when everyone owned horses the quickest way to measure horses was with their hands. Approximately, the width of most peoples hands are 4 inches so they didn't have to worry about people with bigger or smaller hands than others.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoHorses do not have hands.
I think what they meant was, in terms of measuring horses (by which is called a "hand") one hand=4 inches.
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