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Definition of Hand-to-hand struggle
1. Noun. The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat. "We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
Generic synonyms: Struggle
Derivative terms: Grapple, Grapple, Wrestle, Wrestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand-to-hand Struggle
Literary usage of Hand-to-hand struggle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald (1882)
"... and luxury at one end of society, while at the other there are millions of
hard-working men engaged in a desperate hand-to-hand struggle with pauperism. ..."
2. Battle-fields and Victory: A Narrative of the Principle Military Operations by Willis John Abbot (1891)
"... IN TURN—A hand-to-hand struggle. 'OR two days the Wilderness had resounded
with the thunders of battle from earliest dawn until after night had fallen. ..."
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