Not initially taken, one may hold hand (6)
I believe the answer is:
mitten
'not initially taken one may hold' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'hand' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'hand' could be 'mitt' (synonyms) and 'mitt' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'en' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mitten that I've seen before include "Fingerless glove" , "Hand warmer" , "boxing glove" , "Simple glove" , "Glove with no partition between fingers" .)