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handgrip Also -gripe, handy-, handigrip(e. [OE. handgripe, f. grípan to gripe, grip. In 16th c. varied with handy-gripe, handy gripe, after handiwork: cf. also handy a.] 1. Grasp, seize with the hand. to come to handgrips, to come to close combat. So to be at or in handgrips.
α Beowulf (Z.) 965 For hand-gripe minum. a1300Cursor M. 4002 Sal i slip And fal noght in his hand grip. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxii. 2 He commeth to handgripes ageine. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb) 228 A iollie man..Good at hand grippes, better to fight a farre. a1618Sylvester Panaretus 1258 Hee, that both Globes in his own hand-gripe holds. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, Now at actual handgrips with Destiny herself. 1858–Fredk. Gt. iv. ii. (1865) I. 281 The Bridge of Cassano; where Eugene and Vendôme came to handgrips. β1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. ii. 185 b, Fyghtyng in warre ought to bee within handye grypes. 1601Holland Pliny II. 567 margin, Two wrestlers..at handy-gripes. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. v. 188 Unless we left our Swords, and promised not to go to handy Grips. 1895Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 2 Feb., At other places, where they have come into handi-grips with the invaders. 2. Grip or firm pressure of the hand in greeting.
1884E. Yates Recoll. (Tauchn.) II. iii. 115 With his warmest hand-grip. 1885New Bk. Sports 99 The laird exchanges a hearty hand-grip with him. 3. The handle by which a grip is taken.
1887N. Y. Semi-weekly Tribune 16 Aug. (Cent.), The handle or handgrip [of a sword]. |