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vb. (present participle of lend a hand English)
Usage examples of "lending a hand".
You, after lending a hand in the capture, will return here and hold yourself in readiness to join me, and carry out another capture as soon as I have made all the necessary arrangements.
But for two days, with brief intervals when caution had seemed advisable, he had been out from dawn to dusk about the holding, lending a hand with the cattle, replenishing the wood-pile, fetching and carrying, planting out in the vegetable garden, and had had neither time nor inclination to worry about his situation.
A few yards away he saw Hank Sterling lending a hand to a crewman emerging from the surf.
I thought you might be interested in lending a hand, since we were the ones who set him up for it.
Guy insisted on lending a hand the next morning despite Roman's protests.