hand-running

American  

[hand-ruhn-ing] / ˈhændˈrʌn ɪŋ /

adverb

1. in unbroken succession; consecutively.

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Etymology

Origin of hand-running

First recorded in 1820–30; extension of “in the run of a hand,” a reference to a card player receiving several good cards in a single deal, and implying quick succession

Example Sentences

In fact, for two years hand-running, almost daily, and in spite of the three-legged shepherd’s fang-baring snarls, Bernabe had been ticketing Onofre’s perambulating junk heap.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

There, the very first week he was gone, she went out three nights hand-running with that feather man from St. Louis.

From The Rosie World by Fillmore, Parker

I told her," he stated sweepingly, "that you'd been on a big jamboree and had licked fourteen men hand-running.

From The Uphill Climb by Bower, B. M.

It could not be for lack of the bath; he had already slept well without it too many nights hand-running.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

I guess she played it for two hours hand-running, because when I found it was sort of soothing me, I didn’t want her to break in on the effect by beginning another.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson