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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands..
Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace. A person sentenced to be "behanded" might by law commute the punishment by paying a certain sum, and presenting a bronze hand marked with the name, crime, etc.
The pit burial in a Cahokia mound of four beheaded and behanded men "could easily be personifications of the four beheaded, sacred ears of corn in a similar ritual" (Brose and Greber 1979, 264).
Use behand when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Behand means (transitive) To remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands..
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Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace. A person sentenced to be "behanded" might by law commute the punishment by paying a certain sum, and presenting a bronze hand marked with the name, crime, etc.
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