Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, thick, brawny fist.
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Examples
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Basche gave him grimace for grimace, slipped an angel into his mutton-fist, and prayed him to assist at the contract and ceremony; which he did.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Basche gave him grimace for grimace, slipped an angel into his mutton-fist, and prayed him to assist at the contract and ceremony; which he did.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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His lean frame would crack and break in the grasp of his mighty assailant, and I was loth that the fool should come to harm; so I began to push my way through towards the pair, and arrived just as Phineas, having shot a most pointed dart, was about to pay for his too great skill with a blow from the porter's mutton-fist.
Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898
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Basche gave him grimace for grimace, slipped an angel into his mutton-fist, and prayed him to assist at the contract and ceremony; which he did.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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