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handing

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈhændɪŋ//

The act by which something is handed to somebody.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of handpresent participle and gerund of hand

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is handed to somebody.

    Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued […]

Forms

plural
handings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).