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book hands

book hands is the plural of book hand.

Meaning of book hand

Noun

book hand (countable and uncountable, plural book hands)

  1. Any of several stylized handwriting scripts used during medieval times. It was intended for legibility and often used in transcribing official documents (prior to the development of printing and similar technologies.)

Questions about book hands

What is book hands the plural of?
Book hands is the plural of book hand.

Words near book hands in the dictionary

  1. book gill
  2. book gills
  3. book group
  4. book groups
  5. book hand
  6. book hands
  7. book in
  8. book into
  9. book it
  10. book keeping
  11. book knowledge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: book hands (page history and authors); book hand (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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