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Hand-down   /hænd-daʊn/   Listen
Hand-down

adjective
1.
Passed on from one person to another.  Synonym: hand-me-down.






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"Hand-down" Quotes from Famous Books



... It ain't a mite of trouble to me to have 'em," answered the mother of the seven hardily. "You all are so kind to help me out all the time with everything. Course we are poor, but Jim makes enough to feed us, and every single child I've got is by fortune, just a hand-down size for somebody else's children. Five of 'em just stair-steps into clothes of Mis' Rucker's four, and Mis' Nickols saves me all of Bob's things to cut down, so I never have a mite of worry over any ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess



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