handing
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈhændɪŋ/
Verb
  1. present participle of hand#English|hand
Noun

handing (plural handings)

  1. The act by which something is handed to somebody.
    • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
      Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued […]



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