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Handgrip
Definitions
- 1 A handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.
"Near-synonym: grip"
- 2 the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it wordnet
- 3 A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure hold on the handle.
"Each cane consists of three parts: (1) the handle (which may or may not be covered by a rubber handgrip), (2) the shaft, and (3) the base (which is usually ..."
- 4 A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person.
"There are also "secret" signs and handgrips, which initiates are never supposed to reveal lest they suffer a fate worse than death."
- 5 The ability to grip something with a hand.
"The patient's handgrip is also tested for muscle strength."
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- 6 A grasp or grip.
"“I heard that this youngster had the strength of thirty men in his handgrip!”"
Etymology
From Middle English hand grip, handegrip, from Old English handgripe (“handgrip”), from Proto-West Germanic *handugripi (“handgrip”), equivalent to hand + grip. Cognate with Dutch handgreep (“handgrip, grasp”), German Handgriff (“handgrip, grasp, handle, hilt”), Danish håndgreb (“handgrip”), Swedish håndgrepp (“handgrip, handle, hilt”).
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