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Definition of Handbill
1. Noun. An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution. "He mailed the circular to all subscribers"
Generic synonyms: Ad, Advert, Advertisement, Advertising, Advertizement, Advertizing
Specialized synonyms: Stuffer
Derivative terms: Circularise, Circularise, Circularise, Circularize, Circularize, Circulate
Definition of Handbill
1. n. A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
Definition of Handbill
1. Noun. A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand. ¹
2. Noun. A pruning hook. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handbill
1. a circular [n -S] - See also: circular
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbill
Literary usage of Handbill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Anti-Warmoth handbill House Miic. Doc. no. 211, 1,2 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 318.
Copy of handbill circulated among the negroes by the Packard faction. ..."
2. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1878)
"[Bound up with the Almanack for 1689, in which the foregoing Journal is contained,
there is a handbill advertisement of a dwarf, "for Largeness and ..."
3. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"How the New Scientific Studies were begun at Cambridge (A handbill, reproduced from
... Cambridge, 1877) The handbill reproduced on the opposite page is ..."
4. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"I presume, however, that the handbill published at New York the 12th of this
month is at least partly false. They write me from Martinique, ..."
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