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Definition of Handhold
1. Noun. An appendage to hold onto.
Definition of Handhold
1. Noun. A projection that one may hold onto for support ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handhold
1. a handgrip [n -S] - See also: handgrip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handhold
Literary usage of Handhold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Federal Employers' Liability and Safety Appliance Acts by William Wheeler Thornton (1909)
"If at any place in the end of this car there was not a grab-iron or handhold,
properly speaking, but some other appliance, such as a ladder or brake lever, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"The location of the handhold was euch that It was convenient and inviting ...
The handhold was also used for raising the manhole cover to put water into the ..."
3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1905)
"The question upon which the case turned was whether this handhold had been
originally properly secured, and, if so, whether in such case the company had ..."
4. A Digest of Decisions Including Dicta Under the Federal Safety Appliance and by Otis Beall Kent (1915)
"Any reasonable substitute for a handhold is a handhold within the purview of the
Acts: US y. Boston & MR Co., 168 Fed., 148. If at any place in the end of ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1896)
"I saw him hanging by his hands before his handhold loosened. ... The handhold
was a necessary appliance for performing the service required of deceased ..."
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