hander
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hander (plural handers)
- One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
- [1682], [John] Dryden, Religio Laici or A Laymans Faith. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Of that vast Frame, the Church; yet grant they were
The handers down, can they from thence infer
A right t'interpret?
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a conveyor in succession
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Etymology 2 edit
hand (noun) + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix)
Noun edit
hander (plural handers)
- (in combinations) Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
- 2010, Chris Lewit, Tennis Technique Bible, volume One:
- Two-handers generally do not transition to the net as quickly or as often as one-handers. This, to me, however, is just a coaching failure rather than a technical limitation.
- (archaic, slang) A blow on the hand as punishment.
- 1959, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report, page 507:
- I got six "handers", and it hurt. It taught me my lesson, and I never slid down the banisters again.