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Handgrip

noun
1.
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.  Synonyms: grip, handle, hold.  "It was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"






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"Handgrip" Quotes from Famous Books



... Omnipotence. If these two between them could not secure small boys of seven or eight from disaster, what could? The unbiassed observer—if he had been passing at the time—might have thought that Dave's chubby but vigorous handgrip and his legs curled tight round the truck-handle were the immediate and visible reasons why he was not shot across the truck into space. Anyhow, he held on quite tight, shouting loudly the next item of the programme—"Now ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan



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