I'm trying to interpret the sentence

> 笑みを交わしてのひらを重ね信じる

The part that's giving me trouble is 重ね信じる, which is a compound verb that I
haven't seen before.

重ね, as the stem form of 重ねる, means a pile or heap of something, while 重ねる
means to stack, overlay, or repeat something. I came across [this
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/72263/the-translation-
of-%e9%87%8d%e3%81%ad%e3%81%a6%e3%81%84%e3%81%9f) that gives different answers
for the definition, so now I'm more confused on how to read 重ね信じる.

Could it mean to believe in stacking something?

Thanks for the help.
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Meaning of 重ね in a compound verb
It's parsed [笑みを交わし][てのひらを重ね][信じる].

That て should be 手. Strange that 手 isn't in kanji here; it's a basic kanji and
using て really blends it into the previous word, and I misread it the first
couple times through.

Anyway, 重ね here is a transitive verb with 手のひら being the object being stacked.
I read this as a fancy way to say "hold hands".

Maybe with some poetic license, I'd translate it to something like:

> Smile at each other, put my hand in yours and believe.

*I suspect that was someone typing out the line and forgot to convert the kanji. Does the original song have this as well?
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