handing
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Pronunciation edit
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handing
- present participle and gerund of hand
Noun edit
handing (plural handings)
- The act by which something is handed to somebody.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued […]