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English
Noun
penhold (plural penholds)
- (countable) A manner of placing a pen within one's fingers.
1986 September 1, H.S.R. Kao, R. Hoosain, G.P. Van Galen, Graphonomics: Contemporary Research in Handwriting, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 103:Certainly, it is our impression that some children adopt a penhold that conforms to a dynamic tripod but use movements of the whole arm rather than of the fingers to drive the pen.
- (sports) A form of grip in table tennis similar to that typically used when holding a pen.
2013 September 5, Guido Mina di Sospiro, The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong, Random House, →ISBN:One of the Chinese players, a pudgy little man who couldn't stop talking as we waited for the room to clear from a yoga class, played with the typical Chinese penhold (with the racket held as a pen) and used only the face of his racket.
Adjective
penhold (not comparable)
- (sports) Pertaining to such grip or a playing style involving it.
2012 June 30, Wei Zhang, Advanced Technology in Teaching: Selected papers from the 2012 International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (ICTCS 2012), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 434:Wang Hao's penhold style of play – while maintaining the traditional advantages of the penhold grip, has also greatly improved on it.