To write something using a pen or pencil held in your hand rather than typing or printing it.
Compound of 'hand' (Old English 'hand') and 'write' (Old English 'writan'), formed deliberately in the typewriter era (late 1800s) to distinguish manual from mechanical writing.
Handwrite was invented as a word almost overnight when typewriters became common—before that, 'writing' was always manual, so specifying 'hand-writing' would have been redundant, like saying 'talk-speaking' today.
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