ALL HANDS

Definition: ALL HANDS

ALL HANDS

1. Everybody; all parties.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Assent

With one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una voce, by common consent, in chorus, to a man; nem. con., nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands.

Carried, agreed, nem. coNoun: adVerb: unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation.

Generality

Everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N or M, all sorts.

Crosswords: ALL HANDS

This is how we do it, all hands are in the air (This Is How We Do It; performing artist: Montell Jordan)

All Hands on Deck (1961)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Music

• All Hands on the Bad One (reference)

• All Hands Working (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Dredge sample on deck - all hands want to see what's there On the bow of the SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp cook roasts the boar and all hands get barbecued pork. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Liberty boat stuck in mud - all hands waiting for the taxi service. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Refueling from USS Ashtabula (AO-51), while operating off the coast of Vietnam, circa early 1966. Although seas were running very high, the ships completed replenishment and Ticonderoga received 175,000 gallons of black oil. The original print was received by the "All Hands" magazine Editorial Department on 14 February 1966. Credit: NAVY.

Underway while conducting anti-submarine exercises in the western Atlantic, circa early 1965. The original print was received by "All Hands" magazine on 23 April 1965. Note flight deck markings on this ship, the last axial-deck fixed-wing aircraft carrier in U.S. Navy service. Credit: NAVY.

"Future Sailors are sworn in aboard the guided missile cruiser Boston by Captain Archer R. Gordon. Above them are the ship's eight-inch guns." (quoted from the original photo caption) The photograph was received by "All Hands" magazine on 8 February 1967. Location is probably Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: NAVY.

Ties up alongside USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2) outside Claywall Harbor, Naples, Italy, 10 April 1968. This view shows the submarine's line handling crew aft of her sail, just as she has been made fast and the National Ensign transferred to its "in port" position. Scorpion was lost with all hands in May 1968, while returning to the U.S. from this Mediterranean deployment. Credit: NAVY.

View showing the "X" configuration tail planes fitted in 1960-61. This photograph was received by "All Hands" magazine on 26 March 1965. Credit: NAVY.

Comes alongside USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2) outside Claywall Harbor, Naples, Italy, 10 April 1968. Scorpion was lost with all hands in May 1968, while returning to the U.S. from this Mediterranean deployment. Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Yankee, "All hands on the boat falls". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

That subjects or foreigners, attempting by force on the properties of any people, may be resisted with force, is agreed on all hands. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He had comrades, accomplices, retreats on all hands, in which he would take refuge without doubt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ALL HANDS": agreed on all hands ♦ all hands on deck! ♦ all hands to quarters! ♦ at all hands ♦ on all hands ♦ pipe up all hands. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏بمساعدة الكل (on all hands). (various references)

Czech

všichni muži na palubu (all hands on deck). (various references)

French

avec l'aide de tous (on all hands), partout (all about, on all hands). (various references)

Greek 

όλοι οι άνδρεσ, όλο το πλήρωμα. (various references)

Hungarian

mindenki a helyére! (all hands to quarters!), mindenki a fedélzetre! (all hands on deck!, below there!), mindenki a fedélzet alá! (all hands below!), mindenfelé (about, abroad, all around, around, eachwhere, everywhere, near and far, on all hands, on every hand), mindenütt (all about, all along, all over, eachwhere, everywhere, far and wide, from every side, near and far, on all hands, throughout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

総�"� (all the members, the entire strength), 全�"� (all members, the whole crew). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"い�" (all members, the whole crew), そうい�" (all the members, monastery, temple, the entire strength). (various references)

Pig Latin

allay andshay

Romanian

aduna tot echipajul pe punte (pipe up all hands), toţi oamenii la posturi (all hands to quarters), din toate pãrţile (from all parts, on all hands, round about). (various references)

Turkish

herkes (all, all and sundry, every damned one, every man jack, every one, everybody, everyone, one and all, people, the whole caboodle, to a man). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: alands, sandal.

-3 letters: aland, alans, anlas, dahls, dhals, hadal, halls, hands, hansa, lands, nadas, nasal, salad, salal, shall.

-4 letters: aahs, aals, alan, alas, alls, anal, anas, ands, ansa, dahl, dahs, dals, dash, dhal, hall, hand, lads, land, lash, nada, sall, sand, shad.

-5 letters: aah, aal, aas, ads, aha, ala, all, als, ana, and, ash.

+1 letter: handballs.

+3 letters: hollandaise.

+4 letters: hollandaises.

+5 letters: ballhandlings.