penhold

plural penholds · alternative penholder

1. A manner of placing a pen within one's fingers.

   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.

   1986 September 1, H.S.R. Kao, R. Hoosain, G.P. Van Galen, Graphonomics: Contemporary Research in Handwriting, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 103

2. hobbiesA form of grip in table tennis similar to that typically used when holding a pen.

   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.

   2013 September 5, Guido Mina di Sospiro, The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong, Random House, →ISBN

alternative penholder

1. not comparablehobbiesPertaining to such grip or a playing style involving it.

   Wang Hao's penhold style of play – while maintaining the traditional advantages of the penhold grip, has also greatly improved on 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