These fists and fingers are the Marabar Hills, containing the extraordinary caves.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— the hand clenched with the fingers doubled into the palm and the thumb doubled inward across the fingers
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Macmillan
— your hand when your fingers are closed tightly
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Collins
— Your hand is referred to as your fist when you have bent your fingers in towards the palm in order to hit someone, to make an angry gesture, or to hold something.
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Other Word Forms
fist
Usage
4 uses of ‘fists’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster