(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:03:43

Hand"y-dan`dy (?), n.

A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.

Piers Plowman.

 

© Webster 1913.

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