COME TO HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come to hand mean? 

• COME TO HAND (verb)
  The verb COME TO HAND has 1 sense:

1. be revealed or disclosed

  Familiarity information: COME TO HAND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME TO HAND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be revealed or disclosed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come to hand; come to light

Context example:

The truth finally came to light

Hypernyms (to "come to hand" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

I only trust that it will come to hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here are the letters which announce it, this moment come to hand.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The ten dollars for which Martin had sold "Treasure Hunters" to the Chicago newspaper did not come to hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Cheer up, Watson, for I am very sure that our material has not yet all come to hand.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile, as Jose, whose arm was pierced by a broken bamboo, insists upon returning, I send this letter back in his charge, and only hope that it may eventually come to hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are sending home one of our local Indians who is injured, and I am committing this letter to his charge, with considerable doubts in my mind as to whether it will ever come to hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)