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handyblows

handyblows is the plural 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

Questions about handyblows

What is handyblows the plural of?
Handyblows is the plural of handblow.

Words near handyblows in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handyblows (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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