to battle, to fight, to wage war / to compete (in a match, for example) / to contend (for one's own interests) / (figuratively) to get through with one's sufferings or difficulties

to select; to choose / to elect / to screen

the state of being empty-handed, bare-handed, unarmed

the state of being empty-handed

(archaic) sudden-onset pain in one's hands or arms with no clear immediate cause, such as due to arthritis or neuralgia

(archaic, possibly obsolete) the state of being empty-handed, bare-handed, unarmed / (archaic, possibly obsolete) the state of being empty-handed, doing nothing with no success or positive result

karate

(archaic, possibly obsolete) the left, the left hand, the left-hand side (from the way a blind person would hold their cane in their right hand, leaving the left empty)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend