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Handed

adjective

Having or involving the use of hands. "A four-handed card game"

Hand

verb

(past & past part. handed; pres. part. handing)

Place into the hands or custody of. Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over. "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

Guide or conduct or usher somewhere.

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"Handed" Quotes from Famous Books

... if it killed them. Honest, for a bunch of knockers, perfect both in single handed knocking and team work, our set has anything bound to the bannister ...

— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... Tommy handed it over with an affectionate look at its smooth handle. Dan examined it carefully, then putting it into his pocket, walked ...

— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... spirit had been handed down from the seventeenth-century sects, through the colonial charters. As early as 1638 a Connecticut preacher said: "The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. They who have ...

— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

... had brought an additional interest to the morning budget. Her letters were invariably examined with bland curiosity and handed on to her with comments appropriate to their appearance. Occasionally envelopes with an Australian postmark reached her, and these always excited especial notice. The brief spell of Avery's married ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

... brought, and amongst others there was one from a sister of Sir Thomas Lawrence (Mrs. Bloxam), enclosing a letter of her brother's, having heard that Sir Walter had expressed a wish to have some memorial of him, "rather of his pencil than his pen," said he, as he handed the letter to me, who, as a collector of autographs, would probably value them more than he did; and on referring to Mrs. Bloxam's letter I find the Edinburgh ...

— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

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