The phrase "an ancient hand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is created or influenced by a very old or historical source, often in a poetic or metaphorical context.
Example: "The manuscript bore the marks of an ancient hand, its faded ink telling stories of a long-lost civilization."
Alternatives: "a timeworn hand" or "a venerable hand".
On the bar was a tray of oysters on ice (€9 for six), which the barman shucked to order, behind it a counter of fresh fish and an ancient hand-operated slicer for the charcuterie, and on the blackboard around 30 wines available by the glass.
A variation of the ancient hand weapon is the slingshot, a forked stick with an elastic band attached for hurling small pellets.
Some ancient hand gestures are easily grasped across a world divided into a Babel of spoken and written "foreign" words: for example, no matter what language you speak, the outward palm silently signals "stop" and inward-curling fingers beckon "come".
Flail, ancient hand tool for threshing grain.
In summer, the Saracen's Head near Monmouth is a favourite with canoeists and walkers, and you can cross the river Wye by the ancient hand ferry.
"It is the idea of his coming from the East, and how his work integrates the traditional and the contemporary worlds," said Cheryl Brutvan, curator of a Murakami exhibition now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which documents the range of the artist's influences, all the way back to ancient hand scrolls.
The new method provides "solid evidence that A. africanus was likely using forceful precision pinch grips," says ancient hand expert Matthew Tocheri of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada, and the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program in Washington, D.C.
Snow realized that he could use ancient hand stencils to measure the finger lengths and determine the gender of the artists who had left them.
Haggling for transport is an ancient tradition, handed down from horse traders to the automotive sales counselors of today.
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