hand over hand

Fig. [moving] one hand after the other (again and again). Sally pulled in the rope hand over hand. The man climbed up the rope hand over hand.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zakchaios	-	Biblical Greek
Melody	MEL-ə-dee	English
Aurelius	[ɔ:'ri:jəs]
Karolina	kah-raw-LEE-nah (Polish), kah-ro-LEE-nah (Swedish, German)	Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, German
SÉArlas	SHAHR-las	Irish
Aleksandrina	-	Russian, Bulgarian