He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator.
Addison.
6. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of
performance.
To change the hand in carrying on the war.
Clarendon.
Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand.
Judges vi. 36.
7. An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for
special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck
hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands,
as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for.
Locke.