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Definition of Hand puppet
1. Noun. A puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand.
Definition of Hand puppet
1. Noun. A puppet operated by the hand, especially one in which the puppeteer's hand occupies and controls the head ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Puppet
Literary usage of Hand puppet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Panorama of Science and Art: Embracing the Sciences of Aerostation by James Smith (1815)
"The projection of the mandrel, and that of the screw in the right hand puppet,
IB always rather more than the breadth of both the cutter-traînes together, ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1867)
"... to the martial glory of a sham-fight i»ta militia training; or to the excitement
of the combat in a Punch-and Judy show, when the left-hand puppet ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1867)
"... when the left-hand puppet is so horribly banged with that terrible club by
the right-hand puppet; ..."
4. Church Papers: Sundry Essays in Subjects Relating to the Church and by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1877)
"... or to the excitement of the combat in a Punch-and-Judy show, when the left-hand
puppet is so horribly banged with that frightful club by the right-hand ..."
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