Wa (unit)
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Wa (unit)
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Wa is a unit of length, equal to two metres or four sok (ศอก.) Wa as a verb means to outstretch (one's) arms to both sides, which relates to the fathom's distance between the fingertips of a man's outstretched arms. The 1833 Siamese-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, reads, "[The] Siamese fathom...being computed to contain 78 English or American inches, corresponding to 96 Siamese inches." The length then would have been equivalent to a modern 1.981 metres. Since conversion to the metric sys
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2007-04-15T06:15:52Z
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2024-09-04T01:04:42Z
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