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Definition of Handshaking
1. Noun. Grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract).
Category relationships: Contract
Generic synonyms: Acknowledgement, Acknowledgment
Derivative terms: Shake Hands, Shake Hands, Shake
Definition of Handshaking
1. Verb. (present participle of handshake#Verb handshake) ¹
2. Noun. A greeting by clasping hands. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A step in a protocol in which information is exchanged between computing processor devices; often as part of the initiation process for communications. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handshaking
Literary usage of Handshaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches from the Mountains of Mexico by John R. Flippin (1889)
"handshaking. — CUTTING TREES OUT OF THE PATH.—CIGARETTE SMOKING. ... I refer
to^that of handshaking. This would seem to be an innocent habit, ..."
2. Inside History of the White House: The Complete History of the Domestic and by Gilson Willets (1908)
"... Latter-Day Receptions and handshaking PRESIDENT JACKSON held public receptions
which anybody might attend, with or without invitation. ..."
3. Trooper and Redskin in the Far North-West: Recollections of Life in the by John G. Donkin (1889)
"... "—Indian religion—handshaking—Pipe of peace—Squaws—A Sioux lady—" Medicine "—
Police fired on by ..."
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