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1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.

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(transitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive) To holdhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold (something) outhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/out; to extendhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extend (something) forward.

Sentence	1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.
Definition	( transitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive ) To hold https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold (something) out https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/out ; to extend https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extend (something) forward.

I Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Held Hand