hand running

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English

Adverb

hand running (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) consecutively; in a row
    He won ten times hand running.
    • 1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik
      He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.

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