Meaning of by hand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Manually; without the use of automation or machines.
   idiomatic
2. Without suckling it.

Equivalents

Examples

“The computers went down and they had to do all the bookkeeping by hand that day.”

“Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading. “With the margin being so close, it will require a full by hand recount in each county,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said at a news conference in Atlanta. “This will help build confidence.””

“A full set costs $245 and takes around 10 to 14 days to make by hand.”

“to bring up an infant by hand”

“That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits’ end, so Mrs. Thomas said, what to do with me. [...] Finally Mrs. Thomas said she’d take me, though she was poor and had a drunken husband. She brought me up by hand. Do you know if there is anything in being brought up by hand that ought to make people who are brought up that way better than other people? Because whenever I was naughty Mrs. Thomas would ask me how I could be such a bad girl when she had brought me up by hand--reproachful-like.”

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