Etymology 2 Edit

1. hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
2. ( printing ) the pointing hand symbol ☞
3. ( amateur radio ) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
4. ( slang ) a person's characteristic handwriting
5. A group of men.
6. The talons of a bird of prey.
   • Spenser More light than culver in the falcon's fist.
7. ( informal ) An attempt at something.
   • 2015. Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian. 16 August 2015)[1] 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.
   • 2005. Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect (page 144) 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.

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