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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
handgrip

Old English handgripe; see hand (n.) + grip (n.).\n

Wiktionary
handgrip

n. A handle.

WordNet
handgrip

n. the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" [syn: handle, grip, hold]

Usage examples of "handgrip".

He identified the gems-here was a plump ruby on each handguard, there an array of emeralds around the base of the hilt, in the middle of the handgrip a huge diamond!

Even the appendages Sulu had so casually pronounced handgrips looked unsuited to anything Chekov recognized as a hand, much less anything he would have called gripping.

Minstrel Boy leaned on the handgrips in the traditional submarine commander pose, although the traditional submarine commander was not normally bareass naked.

Harman released one of the handgrips long enough to activate the direction finder on his palm.

Harman and the others lay where they were for a silent moment, hanging on to the handgrips, not sharing their thoughts.

I can see what looks like a set of handgrips on this side of the Gate.

A moment later, the handgrips Sulu held were also netted in strands of light, and the glow did not stop there.

She gasped and almost let go of the alien handgrips under the surge of pain.

She ducked after Salasso through an oval hatch that led to a strip-lit tubular corridor with free-fall handgrips along the sides and retrofitted planking along the bottom.

Hepworth was making his own notes on what the president was wearing, whether his shoes were shined, how firm his handgrip was, and how genuine the easygoing, down-home grin so familiar from hundreds of telecasts was.

The Minstrel Boy leaned on the handgrips in the traditional submarine commander pose, although the traditional submarine commander was not normally bareass naked.

His large wedge-shaped feet weren't well suited to the footpegs, and he had to extend his arms fully to grasp the handgrip controls, but his keen eyes more than made up for those shortcomings, even when streaming with tears, as they were now.

I stepped over spongy detritus, went up onto the balls of my feet, and saw a row of knives -- kitchen knives, knives with stag handles and wooden handles, knives that folded into black metal handgrips, and knives with blades that flicked out of molded steel cases.

A third policeman was standing upright and almost completely hidden behind the nearest petrol pump, but there was nothing hidden about his gun, that most lethal of all close-quarters weapons, a whipper, a sawn-off handgrip shotgun firing 20-gauge medium-lead shot.

Loomis twisted the left handgrip and let a return spring slide it to the dash panel, then pulled the right grip out to its stop.