medley
Webster Dictionary
the confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a melee
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reach
Webster Dictionary
hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book
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smite
Webster Dictionary
to strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone
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hand
Webster Dictionary
an agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking
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pass
Webster Dictionary
to cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand
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text-hand
Webster Dictionary
a large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand
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hand
Webster Dictionary
agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new
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sweep hand
(sweep hand, sweep-second)
Princeton's WordNet
a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes
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sweep-second
(sweep hand, sweep-second)
Princeton's WordNet
a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes
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tabor pipe
(tabor pipe)
Princeton's WordNet
a small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor
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wrestling
(wrestling, rassling, grappling)
Princeton's WordNet
the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
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grappling
(wrestling, rassling, grappling)
Princeton's WordNet
the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
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rassling
(wrestling, rassling, grappling)
Princeton's WordNet
the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
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trench knife
(trench knife)
Princeton's WordNet
a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting
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full house
(ˈfʊl ər tən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a poker hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair. Also called full hand.
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bayonet
(ˈbeɪ ə nɪt, -ˌnɛt, ˌbeɪ əˈnɛt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a daggerlike steel weapon attached to the muzzle of a gun for hand-to-hand combat.
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sweep hand
(ˈswi pər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a hand, usu. a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
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composing stick
(əmˈpoʊ zər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a portable, adjustable, usu. metal tray that the compositor holds in one hand while placing in it type gathered with the other hand.
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minute hand
(ˈmɪn ɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usu. longer than the hour hand.
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widow
(ˈwɪd oʊ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in cards) an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
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quadrant
Webster Dictionary
one of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant
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hand
(ænd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
hand to hand, in direct combat; at close quarters.
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melee
(ˈmeɪ leɪ, meɪˈleɪ, ˈmɛl eɪ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people.
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squeeze
(skwiz)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to press (another's hand or arm) within one's hand as a friendly or sympathetic gesture.
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melee
Webster Dictionary
a fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray
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pique
Webster Dictionary
in piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one
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main-hamper
Webster Dictionary
a hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press
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hand
Webster Dictionary
to lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage
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right-hand
Webster Dictionary
situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road
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fist
Webster Dictionary
the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow
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