What is "lent a hand"

Usage examples of "lent a hand".

Aping lent a hand, and together they began to carry Gentle to the window, from which his mind was already departing.

He paid his bill, slipped over to the stables and lent a hand to the saddling of his horse.

Struma, tubercle, nervous disease, have all lent a hand towards the pruning off of that rotten branch, and the average of the race is thereby improved.

Emerald green it was, and mystically inviting, as if sprites and faeries had lent a hand to its creation.

But when I saw what he was doing, I shoved myself to him, along with Mboto and Ghopal, and lent a hand.

Crewmen started wrestling crates free of the sling and even the Captain lent a hand, at least to the extent of one crate.

Perhaps it would have been better if I had killed him, for he must, as you say, have lent a hand.

Lines were obsolete and everyone lent a hand in scooping them out by the dozen in the long-handled nets.

The others had finished reloading and lent a hand, clearing a path from the front of the vehicle while J.