Hand, or Handing.
When they would deliver away any thing, to
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When they would deliver away any thing, to
be passed to another, or to have it brought to them, they say, hand this away, or hand me that, or hand it along; so when they want men to hoyse, or doe any labour, they use to call for more hands, not more men.