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Definition of Hand out

1. Verb. Give to several people. "The teacher handed out the exams"

Definition of Hand out

1. Verb. (transitive) to distribute ¹

2. Phrase. (baseball slang) an 1800s baseball term meaning a player is out ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Out

Literary usage of Hand out

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

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"The side which loses the choice of courts may elect to begin as " hand-in" or "hand-out." Hand-in is the one who "serves" the ball, that is, begins the game ..."

2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1909)
"Extend one open hand out (palm up) toward the front side and the other hand ... Hold left open hand out, palm up, and circle it with the fist and bring down ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Out of my hand, out of my hand. Yet did I not bear them in peril and pain, Did I not lavish, and watch, and refrain ; Quitting the pleasures of parting ..."

4. A Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Mediaeval Writers and from by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale (1868)
"... when He stretched that hand out to be rest upon Thy holy hill f" And this mountain He purchased s- Alb- Mas nailed upon the Cross. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Two consecutive faults put his hand out In the case of a fault, ... When he is hand-out, his adversary commences serving from either of the courts at his ..."

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