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Idioms and Phrases

With a hand or hands, manually (as opposed to a machine or some other means). For example, This letter was delivered by hand , or You can make these drawings by hand, but computer graphics are more efficient . [Mid-1500s]
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Federal election officials are required to count ballots by hand in front of witnesses.

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First, understand the schedule used to be assembled by hand and in many years would have been finished by now.

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To flush the toilet, launder clothing, wash dishes or bathe, residents were forces to haul water by hand from wells.

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The demolition contractors say they will try to preserve the best stonework features by removing them by hand.

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She looked at the Mann House’s gleaming white exterior, which had to be scrubbed down by hand after the fire.

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