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handgrip

noun

Etymology

From Middle English hand grip, handegrip, from Old English handgripe (“handgrip”), from Proto-West Germanic *handugripi (“handgrip”), equivalent to hand + grip. Cognate with Dutch handgreep (“handgrip, grasp”), German Handgriff (“handgrip, grasp, handle, hilt”), Danish håndgreb (“handgrip”), Swedish håndgrepp (“handgrip, handle, hilt”).

  1. inherited from *handugripi✻ — “handgrip”
  2. inherited from handgripe — “handgrip”
  3. inherited from hand grip

Definitions

  1. A handle

    A handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.

    • Near-synonym: grip
    • On a motorcycle, you work the clutch by squeezing a lever on your left handgrip, and you operate the shift lever with your left foot.

  2. A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more…

    A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure hold on the handle.

    • Each cane consists of three parts: (1) the handle (which may or may not be covered by a rubber handgrip), (2) the shaft, and (3) the base (which is usually ...

  3. A handshake

    A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person.

    • There are also "secret" signs and handgrips, which initiates are never supposed to reveal lest they suffer a fate worse than death.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The ability to grip something with a hand.

      • The patient's handgrip is also tested for muscle strength.

    2. A grasp or grip.

      • “I heard that this youngster had the strength of thirty men in his handgrip!”
      • The captain of evil discovered himself in a handgrip harder than anything he had encountered in any man on the face of the earth.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA