hand-running
[hand-ruhn-ing]
- in unbroken succession; consecutively.
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Origin of hand-running
First recorded in 1820–30
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They celebrate for two weeks, hand-running, just like the Jews of Barbary.
The Wolf CubPatrick Casey
There, the very first week he was gone, she went out three nights hand-running with that feather man from St. Louis.
The Rosie WorldParker Fillmore
It could not be for lack of the bath; he had already slept well without it too many nights hand-running.
Gideon's BandGeorge W. Cable
Why, I rowed with the Crew three years hand-running—not a sign of anything wrong with me!
The Destroying AngelLouis Joseph Vance