Fist
Fist (fist) , noun
[Old English fist, fust, Anglo-Saxon fȳst; akin to Dutch vuist, Old High German fūst, German faust, and prob. to Latin pugnus, Greek pygmh` fist, py`x with the fist. Compare Pugnacious, Pigmy.]
1.
The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.
2.
The talons of a bird of prey. [Obsolete]
More light than culver in the falcon's fist.
3.
(print.) the index mark [], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
Collocations (1)
Hand over fist (Nautical) , rapidly; hand over hand.
Fist , transitive verb
1.
To strike with the fist. — Dryden
2.
To gripe with the fist. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare