Fist

Noun

 * 1) hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
 * The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
 * 1)  the pointing hand symbol
 * 2)  the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code

Verb

 * 1) To strike with the fist.
 * ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball. Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
 * 1) To close (the hand) into a fist.
 * 2) *1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:
 * He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
 * 1)  To fist-fuck.

Adjectives for Fist
clenched; rocklike; parental; fat; helping husky; tense; skillful; clumsy; practised dimpled; huge; solid; hamlike; giant heavy; ample; pudgy; iron; hard-knuckled useful-looking; great;   raw;  calloused knotted; gnarled; vengeful; angry; furious shaking; defiant; rage-driven; smashing whirling; swinging; pounding; thudding closed; hairy; doubled; impotent; knuckle-torn; rock-laden; mailed; choking; eager oxiike.

Verbs for Fist
bandage—; box with—; clasp in—; clench —; close into—; conceal in—; dodge—; double into—; drive with—; feint with—; fight with—; flourish—; fold into—; grasp with—; injure—; lay on with—; shake—; strike with—; swing—; wield—; —clutches; —crushes; —descends; —grips; —shoots out; —staggers.

Thesaurus
arrow, autography, blaze, calligraphy, chirography, compass needle, direction, direction post, finger post, graphanalysis, graphology, graphometry, guide, guideboard, guidepost, hand, handwriting, hour hand, index, index finger, lead, lubber line, manuscript, milepost, minute hand, needle, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, pointer, script, scription, scrive, signboard, signpost, stylography

Etymology
, from fyst:, from   (compare West Frisian fûst:, Dutch vuist:, German Faust:), from  'fist' (compare Lithuanian kumste:, Old Church Slavonic pęstĭ:), from *pénkʷe 'five'. More at five.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Basque: ukabil
 * Belarusian: кулак
 * Bulgarian: юмрук
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拳頭, 拳头
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, koura
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, kreppt hönd
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dūre


 * Luxembourgish: Fauscht
 * Macedonian: тупаница
 * Meru:
 * Neapolitan:
 * Norwegian:, knyttneve
 * Occitan: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: песница
 * Roman: pesnica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: knytnäve
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кулак
 * Volapük: pun
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: פֿויסט


 * Spanish:


 * Portuguese:


 * Swahili:


 * : dòrn

Verb

 * Finnish: iskeä/lyödä nyrkillä; nyrkkeillä (a ball)


 * Swahili:

Related terms

 * fisty
 * tight-fisted
 * iron fist
 * hand over fist
 * fisticuff
 * fistful
 * rule with an iron fist

Anagrams

 * fits
 * sift