Definition of Handbill

1. Noun. An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution. "He mailed the circular to all subscribers"


Definition of Handbill

1. n. A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

Definition of Handbill

1. Noun. A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand. ¹

2. Noun. A pruning hook. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handbill

1. a circular [n -S] - See also: circular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbill

handball court
handballed
handballer
handballers
handbarrow
handbarrows
handbasin
handbasket
handbaskets
handbell
handbells
handbike
handbikes
handbill (current term)
handbills
handblocked
handblown
handbook
handbooks
handbow
handbra
handbrake
handbrake turn
handbraked
handbrakes
handbraking
handbras
handbreadth

Literary usage of Handbill

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Anti-Warmoth handbill House Miic. Doc. no. 211, 1,2 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 318. Copy of handbill circulated among the negroes by the Packard faction. ..."

2. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1878)
"[Bound up with the Almanack for 1689, in which the foregoing Journal is contained, there is a handbill advertisement of a dwarf, "for Largeness and ..."

3. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"How the New Scientific Studies were begun at Cambridge (A handbill, reproduced from ... Cambridge, 1877) The handbill reproduced on the opposite page is ..."

4. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"I presume, however, that the handbill published at New York the 12th of this month is at least partly false. They write me from Martinique, ..."

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