0 present participle of palm
1 to make something seem to disappear by hiding it in the palm of your hand as part of a trick, or to steal something by picking it up in a way that will not be noticed:
He asserted that the relaxation could be deepened in most cases by palming, or covering the closed eyes with the palms of the hands, without putting pressure on the eyeballs.
Many of these involve quick palming of the billet, substitutions with pre-made billets, and other similar tricks.
Many saltwater species, particularly large, fast and powerful fish, are not easily slowed down by palming the hand on the reel.
On some reels, palming is difficult or impossible because the spool is fully skirted.
Some players alternate between fingerstyle and plectrum playing, palming the plectrum when it is not in use.
This palming technique is easily adaptable to coin magic for the use of a jumbo coin (usually 3 inches in diameter).
The £70 million package to get councils to sell off tenancies was a way not of tackling the backlog of housing disrepair but of palming it off on someone else.
Do they realise that it is no good palming us off time after time by saying that they are complementary?
