hand over hand
Adverb
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Adverb
hand over hand (not comparable)
- (nautical) by passing the hands alternately one before or above the other, especially with rope
- 1849, Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, chapter 50
- Max went up the rigging hand over hand, and brought his red head with a bump against the base of Harry’s back.
- 1849, Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, chapter 50
- rapidly
- 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, chapter 11
- He was making money, hand over hand, then; and he never stopped speculating and improving till he'd scraped together three or four hundred thousand dollars
- 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, chapter 11
- (rapidly) hand over fist
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