Home
Random
Log in
Settings
Donations
About Wiktionary
Disclaimers
Search
handblow
Language
Watch
Edit
English
edit
Etymology
edit
hand
+
blow
Noun
edit
handblow
(
plural
handblows
)
A blow struck with the hand.
1951
, John Dickson Carr,
The Devil in Velvet
, page
32
:
"I have much of moment to do," he said. The strong, harsh tone struck the servant like a
handblow
.
Categories
:
English compound terms
English lemmas
English nouns
English countable nouns
English terms with quotations
Hidden category:
Quotation templates to be cleaned