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  • noun Plural form of handshape.

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Examples

  • First off, I haven't done historical linguistics in ages now, apart from my work on diachronic changes in sign language handshapes.

    PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009

  • SignWriting is a writing system which uses visual symbols to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of sign languages.

    ginger's thoughts » Open Standards for Sign Languages 2009

  • SignWriting is a writing system which uses visual symbols to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of sign languages.

    ginger's thoughts » 2009 » September 2009

  • It made me think of poems written in the shape of something related to the poem, or about ASL "ABC" stories that play off the handshapes of fingerspelling.

    Fiber Buffet The Raven 2006

  • It made me think of poems written in the shape of something related to the poem, or about ASL "ABC" stories that play off the handshapes of fingerspelling.

    Archive 2006-06-01 The Raven 2006

  • Play: two Y handshapes, caught at the pinkies to shake. “—or build a road in your sandbox...”

    Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002

  • Build: U handshapes, stacking one on top of the other over and over.

    Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002

  • Play: two Y handshapes, caught at the pinkies to shake. “—or build a road in your sandbox...”

    Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002

  • I make two fists—S handshapes—and tap one on the other, to simulate hard labor.

    Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002

  • Build: U handshapes, stacking one on top of the other over and over.

    Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002

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