hand
/hænd/ noun A1- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in humans and other primates, and the corresponding part in many other animals. · Her hands are really strong.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
- The set of tiles held by a player.
- A round of a card game.
- A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- Four inches, a hand's breadth.
Plural hands
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- hand around To distribute something by having one person hand it to a...
- hand away To give up or give away for a price that is too low; to s...
- hand back To return (something) to where it came from.
- hand down To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from...
- hand in To give something to a responsible person.
- hand off To pass (the ball) to a teammate.
- hand on To transfer (something) to someone else, especially as a ...
- hand out To distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (f...
- hand over To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
- hand up To deliver an indictment (e.g. to a judge).
From the library
When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship’s bulwarks.
“No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.” Then turning to the crew, he said, “Bear a hand there, to take in sail!”
All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
During this conversation, Dantès, after having exchanged a cheerful shake of the hand with all his sympathizing friends, had surrendered himself to the officer sent to arrest him, merely saying, “Make yourselves quite easy, my good fellows, there is some little mistake to clear up, that’s all, depend upon it; and very likely I may not have to go so far as the prison to effect that.”
Other matches
- hand To give, pass or transmit with the hand, litera... A2
- hand around To distribute something by having one person ha...
- hand away To give up or give away for a price that is too...
- hand back To return
- hand down To transmit in succession, as from father to so...
- hand in To give something to a responsible person.
- hand off To pass
- hand on To transfer
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