1. hand over - Noun
2. hand over - Verb
to surrender someone or something to another
Source: WordNethand-over
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. Ray Bradbury
I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow. R. S. Thomas
I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest. Cassandra Clare
He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick. Suzanne Collins
We must make, if we can, an enduring peace. That is why I feel so strongly regarding the proposal to hand over two million Germans to the Poles, who are an inferior people so far as concerns the experience and capacity for government. We do not want to create another Alsace-Lorraine. David Lloyd George
The deckhands are in control, and the base have the upper hand over the noble. Theognis of Megara