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Definition of Handers
1. hander [n] - See also: hander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handers
Literary usage of Handers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pickett and His Men by La Salle Corbell Pickett (1899)
"OUR LEFT-handers. The first week in June the French maid came to our room with
a telegram for Mr. Edwards, announcing that Mr. and Mrs. Hutton would sail ..."
2. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1816)
"... where, in 1540, was held a most magnificent feast, given by the challengers
of England, who had caused to be proclaimed in France, handers, Scotland, ..."
3. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"... then taking hold of Broome, he delivered three straight right-handers nearly
on the same spot, and Broome was eventually fought down. Twenty minutes. ..."
4. The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of by Henry Chadwick (1884)
"handers. For this game a hole, two or three inches in diameter, must be made in
the ground, near a wall, if possible. When two boys play they first decide ..."
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