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Hand down   /hænd daʊn/   Listen
verb
Hand  v. t.  (past & past part. handed; pres. part. handing)  
1.
To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
2.
To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
3.
To manage; as, I hand my oar. (Obs.)
4.
To seize; to lay hands on. (Obs.)
5.
To pledge by the hand; to handfast. (R.)
6.
(Naut.) To furl; said of a sail.
To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.
To hand over, to yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up.





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"Hand down" Quotes from Famous Books



... take them long to finish the three-mile race across the pasture, and it turned out in the end exactly as Lambert thought it would. When the fugitive came within a few rods of the fence he put his hand down to the holster for his nippers, discovering his loss. Then he looked back to see how closely he was pressed, which ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
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... some broader ones," said old Mr. Beebe. "Well, Joel, my boy, you'll have to climb up and hand down that box up in the corner. P'r'aps some of those ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
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... He brought his hand down on the floor before him, and to Ross's astonishment the area around the players darkened and the floor became a stretch of miniature countryside. Grassy plains rippled under the ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton
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... slid her hand down Maud's neck to quiet her prancing, and leaned in the saddle, her face full of interest. I couldn't see a trace of anything to discourage me; her being on our road again looked favourable. She seemed to think quite as much of that ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
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... and South, East and West, from sea to sea, myth and legend hand down to us as cruel and malignant creatures, who ceaselessly seek to slay man's body and to destroy his soul, the half-human children of the restless sea and of the fiercely ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang
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