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Definition of Handclasp
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 Handclasp
1. Noun. A handshake. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handclasp
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handclasp
Literary usage of Handclasp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Community Boy Leadership: A Manual for Scout Executives by Boy Scouts of America (1922)
"Section 3—The Scout handclasp. The boy scout handclasp is made with the right hand
... One scout shakes hands with another by a good warm handclasp with the ..."
2. An Outline of Individual Study by George Everett Partridge (1910)
"If the greatest possible handclasp is required, the factor of willingness to exert
... Usually in such an experiment as taking the strength of handclasp, ..."
3. Life and Light for Woman by Woman's Board of Missions (1892)
"It was the human life line—the strong handclasp of women, whose hearts defied
... And the handclasp which effects such work means more than the it so surely ..."
4. Revelations of Louise by Albert Stevens Crockett (1920)
"She had a different handclasp from any that we had yet felt. ... Her handclasp
was quite different from Cecilia's and very formal. ..."
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