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hand on
hand organ
hand out
hand over
hand-pick
hand plant
hand press
hand puppet
hand’s-breadth
hand stacking
hand-to-hand
hand-to-mouth
hand traverse
hand truck
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handbag
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handbreadth
hand·breadth [ hánd brèdth ] (plural hand·breadths) or hand's-breadth [ hánd brèdth ] (plural hand's-breadths)


noun 
Definition:
 
width of hand: the width of a hand, used as an approximate measure of length
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