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short-handed, a.2
†1. ? Niggardly, mean; inefficient, ineffective.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 228 My Hostesse was not short, either handed, or witted. 1643Tuckney Balm of Gilead 10 Our thoughts and hopes are too short sighted and handed to reach to all that salvation.
2. Lacking a full complement of ‘hands’, undermanned, understaffed.
1794Nelson 29 July in Nicolas Disp. (1845) I. 461 He would be satisfied with an indifferent Carpenter, but he could not with propriety go to sea without one: that he would not ask for any one in lieu of the other, but he was very short-handed. 1802C. James Milit. Dict. s.v. Gun, Ships that go to sea short-handed. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 202, I think the Ogowé Protestant mission sadly short-handed. 1912Trevelyan Geo. III & Fox I. v. 143 Ships..in far superior condition to his own short-handed and woefully provided vessels.
b. spec. in Ice Hockey, having fewer players on the ice than the opposing team because a penalty has been imposed; also, of a goal: scored while a team is short-handed.
1939R. F. Vaughan Hockey 364 Short handed, a team with one or more players in the penalty box. 1951L. Percival Hockey Handbk. iv. 126/2 The fundamental weapons are..aggressive use of the body, getting the puck into the opposing defensive zone and keeping it there with five men up, forcing the game (even though shorthanded), and generally keeping the pace of the play high. 1969Official Rule Bk. & Schedule of National Hockey League 1969–70 30 ‘Short-handed’ means that the team must be below the numerical strength of its opponents on the ice at the time the goal is scored... Thus coincident minor penalties to both teams do not cause either side to be ‘short-handed’. 1970B. Orr Orr on Ice 96 Our men attempt to get the puck down to the other end and keep it, for even a possible shorthanded score. 1976Washington Post 19 Apr. d3/1 Serge Savard scored a short-handed goal..to lead the Montreal Canadians to a 4–1 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks.
Hence shortˈhandedness.
1886Sat. Rev. 6 Feb. 173 The combination [of offices] now, had Mr. Gladstone repeated it, would rather be forced on him by shorthandedness than taken of free-will. |