Dead hand can refer to:
- Dead Hand (nuclear war), a nuclear deterrent in the Cold War.
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Dead Hand, a sub-boss in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- The Dead Hand, original title of one of the short stories comprising the original Foundation Trilogy
- Dead man's hand poker hand allegedly held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder.
- Mortmain, a legal term which literally means "dead hand"
Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or hand:
“The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)