hand-rear Syllabification: (hand-rear)Definition of hand-rear verb [with object] (of a person) feed and care for (a young animal) until it is fully grown: the baby gorillas were hand-reared by zookeepers after being rejected by their mothers (as adj hand-reared)hand-reared pheasantshand-rear in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of hand-rear in the British & World English dictionary