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handyblow

handyblow is the obsolete form of handblow.

Meaning of handblow

Noun

handblow (plural handblows)

  1. A blow struck with the hand.
    • "I have much of moment to do," he said. The strong, harsh tone struck the servant like a handblow.1951, John Dickson Carr, The Devil in Velvet, page 32

Forms of handyblow

pluralhandyblows

Questions about handyblow

What is handyblow the obsolete form of?
Handyblow is the obsolete form of handblow.

Words near handyblow in the dictionary

  1. handy talkies
  2. handy-dandy
  3. handy-fight
  4. handy-fights
  5. handy-pandy
  6. handyblow
  7. handyblows
  8. handybook
  9. handybooks
  10. handycam
  11. handycams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handyblow (page history and authors); handblow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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