hander
Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
Noun
- Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
- 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. - 2010, Chris Lewit, Tennis Technique Bible,...
- A blow on the hand as punishment.
- I got six "handers", and it hurt. It taught me my lesson, and I never slid down the banisters again. - 1959, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report, page 507:
Origin
From hand (noun) + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Forms
Derived
back-hander glad-hander left-hander no-hander one-hander right-hander second-hander single-hander three-hander two-hander
Noun Entry 2
- One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
- Of that vast Frame, the Church; yet grant they were The handers down, can they from thence infer A right t'interpret? - [1682], [John] Dryden, Religio Laici or A Laymans Faith. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson […],...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English hander From hand (verb) + -er.