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Definition of Old hand

1. Noun. An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service.

Definition of Old hand

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A person who is experienced at a certain activity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Hand

Literary usage of Old hand

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

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Did the old hand " reveal himself, and call out CAPTAIN ... Or, should this meet the eye of the " old hand," will it be the first he ever heard of CAPTAIN ..."

2. The Letter-bag of the Great Western, Or, Life in a Steamer by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840)
"LETTER FROM AN old hand. MY DEAR JAMES— Just as 1 was embarking I received your letter requesting me to give you a full account of my voyage, and such hints ..."

3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Also old hand. 1877. Fit* years' Penal Servitude, L 32. In nine cases out of ten an OLD BIRD would betray himself. 1899. Star, 3 Jan. ..."

4. A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain by Samuel Halkett, John Laing (1883)
"A copy in the Adv. Lib. has, in an old hand, " By John Clerk of Penicuik." LETTER (a) to a friend, giving an account of all the treatises that have been ..."

5. Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Advocate by Cosmo Innes (1854)
"He gradually trained up a set of zealous coadjutors ;f but at the beginning of his work, he actually had not a clerk who could read old hand, and he stood ..."

6. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"The framework-knitter's old hand- frame, which has for so many years been almost the only apparatus commercially employed in manufacturing knitted wearing ..."

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