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ˈhand-play arch.
Interchange of blows in a hand-to-hand encounter: an OE. phrase, revived by some modern writers.
a1000Cædmon's Exod. 327 Heard handpleᵹa. a1050O.E. Chron. an. 1004 (1865) 138 note, Þæt hi næfre wyrsan handpleᵹan on Angel cynne ne ᵹemitton. [1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 350 They never met in all England with worse handplay.] 1884Pall Mall G. 2 May (Cassell), Memories of Scandinavian glee in the hard hand-play of battle. |