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Definition of Shake hands
1. Verb. Take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation.
Definition of Shake hands
1. Verb. To grasp another person's hands in a greeting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shake Hands
Literary usage of Shake hands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"I hope you will shake hands with me, father, and forgive me the vexation I have
caused you. " Fred'went through much more narrative and explanation with his ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"An example may suffice to convey the idea: Two of the parlor actors meet on the
platform; they shake hands, one says "How do you do, Doctor? ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"Good-bye then, Miss Markham ; won't you shake, hands with me before I go ? "
She wanted to say something more, but what could she say? ..."
4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1917)
"... prediction made when he entered upon his duties at the Quai d'Orsay, "all the
points of difficulty were adjusted." France and England could shake hands. ..."
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