Definition of Hander

1. n. One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.

Definition of Hander

1. Noun. One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession. - John Dryden ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hander

1. one that hands [n -S] - See also: hands

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hander

handcuffs
handcycle
handcycles
hande
handed
handed-down
handed down
handed in
handed off
handed out
handedly
handedness
handednesses
handegg
handeggs
hander (current term)
handers
handes
handfast
handfasted
handfasting
handfastings
handfastly
handfasts
handfed
handfish
handfishes
handflower
handflowers
handful

Literary usage of Hander

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

1. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... of it from the prefs, and for the hander of it to the prefs, lool. &c." Marvell died in 1678, in his fifty-eighth year, not without the ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"For off-driving purposes a right-hander certainly prefers a left-handed ... One service in particular the left-hander is specially adapted to lend his side, ..."

3. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting and (1915)
"Undoubtedly the left hand and arm of the born left-hander are quite the ... He could hardly hope to compete with the pure right- or left-hander in this day ..."

4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"You see, it was jest this way: Skip he jumped in an' smashed Teddy in the face, an' then come with a. left-hander—" Again was the witness interrupted; ..."

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