handygripes

English

Alternative forms
  • handy gripes, handy-gripes

Noun

handygripes pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; close quarters in fighting.
    • c. 1660–1680, Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, part I, canto III:
      For now the mastives, charging home, / To blows and handygripes were come:

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