Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Seizure with the hand; grip.
- noun A handle; a hilt.
- noun Close grasp or struggle: commonly in the plural.
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Examples
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Even so, our acquaintance might have been no more than a hand-grip and a word -- he was a laconic old fellow -- had it not been for the drinking.
Chapter 10 2010
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Mr. Brown never lost an opportunity, so he clinched the matter on the spot with a virile hand-grip, and thenceforth the conduct of Keesh was to determine the ultimate abiding-place of Macklewrath's soul.
KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010
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Again, where even the fraction of a second's footing was out of the question, he would swing his body past by a moment's hand-grip on a jutting knob of rock, a crevice, or a precariously rooted shrub.
All Gold Canon 2010
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Again, where even the fraction of a second's footing was out of the question, he would swing his body past by a moment's hand-grip on a jutting knob of rock, a crevice, or a precariously rooted shrub.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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And Samsung said its phones "employ an internal antenna design technology that optimizes reception quality for any type of hand-grip use."
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And Samsung said its phones "employ an internal antenna design technology that optimizes reception quality for any type of hand-grip use."
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Specs aside, the thing that is really getting people excited is the hand-grip (seen below).
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Im addition to the issues mentioned above, I find that I wobble when I stitch and sometimes I hold the fabric with too much hand-grip tension so it puckers from time to time.
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Reading Blake was kissing a joy as it flew: but the unregarded Beowulf had me in his hand-grip all along.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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He is the strutting superman who destroys the hateful monster Grendel with his own terrible hand-grip, and then kills Grendel's still more terrible mother.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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