handgrip
Also -gripe, handy-, handigrip(e.
[OE. handgripe, f. gr{iacu}pan to gripe, grip. In 16th c. varied with handy-gripe, handy gripe, after handiwork: cf. also handy a.]
1. Grasp, seize with the hand. to come to handgrips, to come to close combat. So to be at or in handgrips.
| α Beowulf (Z.) 965 For hand-gripe minum. a 1300 Cursor M. 4002 Sal i slip And fal noght in his hand grip. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. lxii. 2 He commeth to handgripes ageine. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb) 228 A iollie man..Good at hand grippes, better to fight a farre. a 1618 Sylvester Panaretus 1258 Hee, that both Globes in his own hand-gripe holds. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, Now at actual handgrips with Destiny herself. 1858– Fredk. Gt. iv. ii. (1865) I. 281 The Bridge of Cassano; where Eugene and Vendôme came to handgrips. |
| β 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. ii. 185 b, Fyghtyng in warre ought to bee within handye grypes. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 567 margin, Two wrestlers..at handy-gripes. 1755 Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. v. 188 Unless we left our Swords, and promised not to go to handy Grips. 1895 Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 2 Feb., At other places, where they have come into handi-grips with the invaders. |
2. Grip or firm pressure of the hand in greeting.
| 1884 E. Yates Recoll. (Tauchn.) II. iii. 115 With his warmest hand-grip. 1885 New Bk. Sports 99 The laird exchanges a hearty hand-grip with him. |
3. The handle by which a grip is taken.
| 1887 N. Y. Semi-weekly Tribune 16 Aug. (Cent.), The handle or handgrip [of a sword]. |