Definition of "hand-grip" [hand-grip]

• Seizure with the hand; grip. (noun)
• A handle; a hilt. (noun)
• Close grasp or struggle: commonly in the plural. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Again, where even the fraction of a second's footing was out of the question, he would swing his body past by a moment's hand-grip on a jutting knob of rock, a crevice, or a precariously rooted shrub."
• "Mr. Brown never lost an opportunity, so he clinched the matter on the spot with a virile hand-grip, and thenceforth the conduct of Keesh was to determine the ultimate abiding-place of Macklewrath's soul."
• "Even so, our acquaintance might have been no more than a hand-grip and a word -- he was a laconic old fellow -- had it not been for the drinking."