Meaning of hand running | Babel Free

Definitions

Consecutively; in a row.

archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“He won ten times hand running.”

“He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.”

“Well, Schultz is around after me again that night to take me to the house in the grove, and in fact every night for a month hand-running I play the captain and it is not long before I am beating him like breaking sticks.”

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