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plural fists
A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. examples
(printing) The pointing hand symbol ☞. examples
(amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code. examples
(slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
A group of men. examples
The talons of a bird of prey. quotations examples
More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 34
(informal) An attempt at something. quotations examples
City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.
2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian
With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
2005, Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page 144
third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted
To strike with the fist. quotations examples
...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.
18 Aug 2003, Damian Cullen. "Running the rule" The Irish Times page 52
To close (the hand) into a fist. quotations examples
He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 29
To grip with a fist. quotations examples
I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 34”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
(slang) To fist-fuck.
(intransitive) To break wind. examples
The act of breaking wind; fise. examples
A puffball. examples