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handwand

noun

Etymology

hand + wand

  1. derived from want — “glove”
  2. borrowed from Wand
  3. derived from gewant — “cloth, garment”
  4. borrowed from Wand
  5. derived from wand — “mole”
  6. compounded as handwand — “hand + wand”

Definitions

  1. A hand-held wand for scanning or for reading an electronic tag.

    • The object was not detected because the "handwand" screening was poorly conducted.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for handwand. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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