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hand running

hand running adverb: consecutively; in a row.

Adverb

hand running (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Consecutively; in a row.
    • He won ten times hand running.
    • He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik

Questions about hand running

What does hand running mean?
Hand running means consecutively; in a row.
What part of speech is hand running?
Hand running is an adverb.

Words near hand running in the dictionary

  1. hand roll
  2. hand rolls
  3. hand round
  4. hand rub
  5. hand rubs
  6. hand running
  7. hand salute
  8. hand salutes
  9. hand sanitiser
  10. hand sanitisers
  11. hand sanitizer

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