Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The right hand or the right side, as distinguished from the shield-hand.
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Examples
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Now he raised his war spear, throwing his spear-hand far back above his right shoulder.
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The spear-hand paused, the black cast a quick glance in the direction of the disturbance, as did the others of the blacks who were not occupied with the subjugation of the ape-man.
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"Stop!" she commanded, throwing her spear-hand backward for a cast.
Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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I can see already that she is going to care for books, and she'll need it more than ever, now -- promise me, husband! "and the good man would sooner have cut off his weather-beaten spear-hand than break his promise to that dying wife.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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