Definitions

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  • noun A pocket-size device using chemicals, hot liquids, or an electrical heating element, for warming the hands.

Etymologies

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hand +‎ warmer

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Examples

  • About the only failing of conventional handwarmers, is that you have to pull your fingers out of the finger slots of your glove and wrap them around the handwarmer every so often when its bitterly cold outside.

    Hand Warmers 2009

  • About the only failing of conventional handwarmers, is that you have to pull your fingers out of the finger slots of your glove and wrap them around the handwarmer every so often when its bitterly cold outside.

    Hand Warmers 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from J4huntfish wrote 18 hours 59 min ago ice armor mittens warmest things everalso dont buy those heat packets get a zippo handwarmer they use lighter fluid and outlast most paackets. the scent of the lighter fluid did not bother the deer when i was hunting

    ive tried many gloves but i havent found a pair that will keep my hands warm for hunting and fishing in the winter do you guys h 2010

  • Yes | No | Report from J4huntfish wrote 18 hours 59 min ago ice armor mittens warmest things everalso dont buy those heat packets get a zippo handwarmer they use lighter fluid and outlast most paackets. the scent of the lighter fluid did not bother the deer when i was hunting

    ive tried many gloves but i havent found a pair that will keep my hands warm for hunting and fishing in the winter do you guys h 2010

  • Extending the handwarmers into the fingers of the glove, however, would likely cause bunching and defeat a major purpose of the handwarmer.

    Hand Warmers 2009

  • Extending the handwarmers into the fingers of the glove, however, would likely cause bunching and defeat a major purpose of the handwarmer.

    Hand Warmers 2009

  • We don't hunt that far away from the house or camp to worry about getting lost and needing to start a fire, and I don't use the Jon-e handwarmer anymore that the lighter was used for to start, but I still carry that worn out Zippo in my pocket every deer season anyway.

    My Favorite Flashlight 2008

  • Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Rodney Long, of Gainsville, Fla., rubbed a handwarmer against his face in an effort to beat the cold.

    Jubilant Crowds Witness Obama's Inauguration 2009

  • And Selenay sat in the reviewing stand, patient as a statue, with a footwarmer under her boots and a handwarmer tucked into a muff someone had brought for her, smiling, while her servants showered the participants with sweets and small coins by way of reward.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • And Selenay sat in the reviewing stand, patient as a statue, with a footwarmer under her boots and a handwarmer tucked into a muff someone had brought for her, smiling, while her servants showered the participants with sweets and small coins by way of reward.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

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