fist

[fist]

A hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)

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The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

Noun
a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)

n.
The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

n.
The talons of a bird of prey.

n.
the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.

v. t.
To strike with the fist.

v. t.
To gripe with the fist.

Fist

Fist , n. [OE. fist, fust, AS. fst; akin to D. vuist, OHG. fst, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr. fist, with the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Pigmy.] 1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.

2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.]

More light than culver in the falcon's fist.

3. (print.) the index mark [&hand;], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows. Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.

Fist

Fist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fisting.] 1. To strike with the fist. Dryden. 2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] Shak.

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

To strike with the fist.

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Usage Examples

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.