FIST

Definitions

1. 1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. Herbert.
2. 2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.] More light than culver in the falcon's fist. Spenser.
3. 3. the index mark [], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows. Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.