handing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhændɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ændɪŋ

Verb

handing

1. present participle and gerund of hand

Noun

handing (plural handings)

1. The act by which something is handed to somebody.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     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 […]

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