Convert hand to barleycorn
Selected category: length.
Definition and details for hand:
Hand is a unit of distance, mostly used to measure the height of horses. One hand equals 4 inches or 0.1016 meters.
Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.