An archaic term for an accomplished deed, a distant accomplishment, or possibly a legal or heraldic term.
Combination of 'far' and 'hand' (meaning action, power, or possession), from Old English. The exact meaning evolved in historical legal and heraldic contexts.
Words like 'farhand' lurk in old legal documents and genealogical texts, barely understood even by historians—they're linguistic fossils showing how specialized vocabulary dies when the practices it describes disappear.
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