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
Duke	[dju:k]
Ambrogio	-	Italian
Charleen	shahr-LEEN, chahr-LEEN	English
Javed	-	Persian, Urdu
Rajesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Rahman	-	Arabic, Persian, Indonesian, Malay