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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.
Definition and details for inch:
Inch (in or '') is a traditional unit of distance equal to 2.54 centimeters or 1/12 foot. The inch was defined as the width of a man's thumb at the base of the nail.
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