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Adjective: hand-down
  1. Passed on from one person to another
    "not too proud to wear hand-down clothes";
    - hand-me-down
Verb: hand down  hand dawn
  1. Passed on, as by inheritance
    "This ring was handed down through many generations"

Derived forms: handed down, handing down, hands down

See also: give, old

Type of: pass on

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handedness
Handel
Handelian
handful
handgrip
handgun
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