hand down

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === hand down (third-person singular simple present hands down, present participle handing down, simple past and past participle handed down) To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor. (law) To deliver (the decision of a court, etc.) (law) To forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court). (idiomatic) To donate (as second hand.) ==== Derived terms ==== hand-me-down ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “hand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hand down”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.