hand over hand
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
by passing the hands alternately one before or above the other, especially with rope
adv
Example Sentences
- "Max went up the rigging hand over hand, and brought his red head with a bump against the base of Harry’s back."
- "In this way he made money hand over hand; became a rich and mighty man, and exalted his cocked hat upon change."
- "He was making money, hand over hand, then; and he never stopped speculating and improving till he'd scraped together three or four hundred thousand dollars"