Wiktionary
hand-hold
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To hold in the hand. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To watch or attend unnecessarily closely (as if holding a child's hand to lead it along). vb. 1 (context transitive English) To hold in the hand. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To watch or attend unnecessarily closely (as if holding a child's hand to lead it along).
Usage examples of "hand-hold".
Clothes gave the enemy a chance for a hand-hold, so his old instructor, Arack the dwarf, had taught him in the Games Arena in Istar.
A girl who could enkindle Lewis Hewitt to the extent of a black orchid and a dinner on Tuesday, and on Thursday forment the hand-holding hankering in a pure young peony-grower-a girl with a reach like that was something.