or mutton-hand, subs. (common).—A hand large, bony, and coarse.

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  1672.  COTTON, Scarronides, Bk. i. p. 10 (ed. 1725).

        With woful Heart, and blubber’d Eyes,
Lifting his MUTTON-FISTS to th’ Skies.

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  1693.  DRYDEN, Juvenal, XVI. 45.

        Will He, who saw the Souldier’s MUTTON FIST,
And saw Thee maul’d, appear within the List;
To witness truth?

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  1706.  WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, Vol. I. pt. vii. p. 25. Attended by a Rogue, design’d To guard and vindicate his Jewel With MUTTON FIST and Oaken Towel.

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, i. 92. But when plump Ciss got the Ball in her MUTTON FIST, once fretted, she’d hit it farther than any.

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  1812.  H. and J. SMITH, Rejected Addresses (‘Punch’s Apotheosis’).

        See she twists her MUTTON FISTS like Molyneux or Beelzebub
And t’other’s clack, who pats her back, is louder far than Hell’s hubbub.

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  1819.  T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, 34.

          By shewing such a FIST of MUTTON
As, on a Point of Order, soon
  Would take the shine from Speaker Sutton.

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  1836.  M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log, viii. But Paul, with his shoulder of MUTTON FIST, gave me a very unceremonious rebuff.

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  1836.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Bagman’s Dog.’

                At each twist
        Of her wrist,
And her great MUTTON FIST.

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  1846.  Punch, x. 163. Ruggins of the MUTTON-FIST.

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  1876.  C. HINDLEY, ed. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 190. The big fellow’s MUTTON-FIST dropping him a hot ’un.

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