lay hands on

1. 1.

   manage with the hands

   Broadermanipulate

Questions about lay hands on

What does lay hands on mean?

lay hands on means "manage with the hands".

Is lay hands on a common word?

lay hands on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.