hand-pasting; attaching by hand
Refers to manually pasting or attaching items such as stickers, labels, or posters, as opposed to using a machine.
Please attach this label by hand.
gambling on credit; gambling without money upfront
Only when written 手張り
A gambling arrangement where no money is put down at the time of betting, with the understanding that losses will be paid later. Restricted to the 手張り spelling.
大量の封筒に切手を手貼りするのは大変だ。
Hand-pasting stamps on a large number of envelopes is tough.
It seems that in old gambling dens there was a method called 手張り, where bets were made on credit.
Used for the gambling sense; also an acceptable variant for the pasting sense.
Compound of 手 (hand) and 貼り/張り (pasting/stretching). The gambling sense likely derives from the idea of 'stretching' one's credit by hand.