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hand to hand, advb. phr. (a.)
Also † hand unto hand (obs. rare).
With close approach of hands; at close quarters; man to man. (Chiefly in reference to fighting.)
c1400Destr. Troy 10351 Neuer hond vnto hond harmyt he nother. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xliii. 144 To fyght with me hand to hande. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 9 My selfe drinking hand to hand with the founder of them. 1640Ld. Kynalmeaky in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) IV. 147 The King went imediately with him, and there talk'd hand to hand some three houres. 1847Grote Greece (1862) III. xl. 434 A close combat hand to hand was indispensable.
b. attrib. or adj. (with --).
1836Lytton Athens (1837) I. 478 The hand-to-hand valour of the Greeks. 1879Froude Cæsar xiv. 209 In these hand-to-hand engagements there were no wounded. |