handygripes
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handygripes pl (plural only)
- (obsolete) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; close quarters in fighting.
- c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part I, canto III:
- For now the mastives, charging home, / To blows and handygripes were come: