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ˈgo-beˌtween
[f. go v. + between adv.]
1. One who passes to and fro between parties, with messages, proposals, etc.; an intermediary.
In the second quot. between serves as a prep.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 273 Euen as you came in to me, her assistant or goe-betweene, parted from me. 1631Massinger Emperor East i. ii, You are The Squire of Dames, deuoted to the seruice Of gamesome Ladies..the Goe-between This female, and that wanton Sir. 1641Milton Animadv. 63 They onely are the internuntio's, or the go-betweens of this trim devis'd mummery. 1710Steele Tatler No. 225 ⁋1 The Broker..as a Go-between..shall find his Account in being in the good Graces of a Man of Wealth. 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph. 281 note, Certain convenient old women, who officiated as go-betweens. 1887Jessopp Arcady viii. 227 The clerk was..a sort of go between when parson and people were a little out of gear.
2. Anything that goes between or connects two other things. Also attrib.
1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 371 Each double window vies with its neighbour in the taste of its go-betweens. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. vii. §87 (1873) 305 If they are exactly equal, the go-between ball will carry off all the motion of the ball which strikes it. 1886C. Scott Sheep Farming 13 Altogether they form a sort of go-between sheep, dividing the Lowlands from the Highlands. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 768 This is the limpkin..a most perfect go-between connecting the rails and the cranes. |