by hand

1. 1.

   without the use of a machine

   “this dress is sewn by hand”

   Antonymsby machine

Questions about by hand

What does by hand mean?

by hand means "without the use of a machine".

What is the opposite of by hand?

The recorded antonyms are by machine.

Is by hand a common word?

by hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.