make one's hand

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make one's hand (third-person singular simple present makes one's hand, present participle making one's hand, simple past and past participle made one's hand)

1. (idiomatic, archaic) To gain advantage or profit.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “make one's hand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)