hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hănd
ipa: /hænd/
ipa: [heənd]
ipa: [hɛənd]
ipa: [hɛːnd]
ipa: [häːnd]
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: hands
form: handing
form: handed
form: handed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: hand
form: hand
form: handed
form: hand
form: handest
form: handed
form: handedst
form: hands
form: handeth
form: handed
form: hand
form: handed
form: hand
form: handed
form: hand
form: -
form: handing
form: handed
Etymology: From Middle English handen, honden, from the noun (see above); and also from henden (> English hend), from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“to seize by hand, grasp, hold”), from Proto-West Germanic *handijan, from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to take by hand, grasp”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian handa, henda (“to grasp, seize”), Middle Low German handen, henden (in derivatives), Dutch handen, henden (“to arrange, dispose, be handy”), Dutch overhandigen (“to hand, hand over”), Middle High German handen (“to cut, hew”), Middle High German henden (“to give hands to; take hold of, seize”), Old Norse henda (“to grasp, seize, take by hand”).
Senses: examples: text: He handed them the letter. She handed me an opportunity.
text: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
glosses: To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
examples: text: to hand a lady into a carriage
glosses: To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
examples: text: I bleſs my Chain, I hand my Oar, / Nor think on all I left on Shoar.
ref: 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “The Lady's Looking-Glass”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: To manage.
examples: text: wee will not hand a rope more
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To seize; to lay hands on.
glosses: To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
examples: text: send the people up to hand the sail, and when up, before they goon the yard, I'll clap the rolling tackle on to steady it
ref: 1814, John Hamilton Moore, “Examination of a Young Sea Officer”, in The new practical navigator, nineteenth edition:
text: In the very long run from the west side of America to Guam, among the Philippine Islands, ships seldom have occasion to hand their sails, so equal and steady is the gale, and yet they make it in about 60 days, which could not be if the wind blew only in the afternoon.
ref: 1834 [1756 November 4], Benjamin Franklin, “Observations in answer to the foregoing.”, in Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, volume II, Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, →OCLC, page 344, column 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To furl (a sail).
glosses: To cooperate.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand around
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand away
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand back
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: handback
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand down
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand in
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand it out
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand it to
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand off
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand out
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand over
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand round
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand someone his hat
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand someone their cards
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand something out like candy
sense: Terms derived from hand (verb)
word: hand up