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单词 among-hands
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among-handsadv.

Brit. /əˈmʌŋhan(d)z/, U.S. /əˈməŋˌhæn(d)z/, Scottish English /əˈmʌŋhan(d)z/
Forms: see among prep., hand n.; also 1800s amongans, 1900s amang-'ands, 1900s amung 'ands.
Etymology: < among prep. + hand n. + -s suffix1. Compare between hands at between prep., adv., and n. Phrases 2, and also beforehand adv., afterhand adv., etc.
Now rare (English regional (northern) and Scottish in later use).
1. Between whiles, in the meantime. Also: intermittently with other activities; concurrently. Cf. between hands at between prep., adv., and n. Phrases 2. Obsolete.
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the world > time > [adverb] > meanwhile
all the whilec888
to whilec950
the whilec960
amongOE
emethena1300
to whilesa1300
therewhilesc1320
that whilesc1330
i-whilesa1340
in (that, this, which, etc.) meantime1340
in the meanwhilea1375
(all) the (also this, that) meantimea1382
in the mean season (also space)a1382
the mean seasona1382
the meanwhilea1382
in the meantimec1384
for the meanwhilec1390
in the mean(s) whilesc1390
the whilesa1400
the whilsta1400
whilsta1400
(in) the meanwhile that?1418
therewhilec1430
mesne1439
meanwhile1440
for the meantime1480
while1508
in the while1542
in the mean1565
in the mean way1569
interim1580
in (that, this, which, etc.) meanwhilea1593
meantimea1593
this while1594
mean space1600
among-hands?1609
between (betwixt obsolete or archaic) whiles1647
ad interim1701
per interim1724
interimistically1890
?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World i. iii. 69 Hee may puffe a little, or talke a few gentle wordes among hands.
1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose ii. 187 Besides the old Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy that were still going among hands, he caused coyn New Ones to keep the Peace.
1754 Short. Hist. Acct. Mod. Sects i, in Three Questions Discussed 163 Mr. Lacy, whom we find..under what they called an inspiration, speaking Greek, French and Latin by turns, and several times whistling among hands.
1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxxii. 284 Had he no deet amang hands in one o' his scrieds wi' the Lairds o' Kilpatrick, I'm sure I canna think what would hae come o' me and my first wife.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Amang-hands, work done conjointly with other business.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 4 Amang hands, work done conjointly with other things. ‘We can do't amang hands’, or ‘all under one.’
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Amongans, among-hands, between whiles. There's a woman as does the work, and waits of her among-hands.
2. Among other things.
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1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 49 We've roughness amang hands, we've kye i' the byre, Come live wi' us, lassie, it's aw I desire.
1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 178 They wad ha kilt meh amang hands, an what couldee ha deunn wih sooa menny o' them.
1956 M. Hartley & J. Ingilby Yorks. Dales 314 We're thrang wi t'hay an' howing turnips amang hands.
3. Jointly with others, with each other's help. Cf. among the hands of at among prep. and adv. Phrases 3.
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1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 236 When there is a task of some difficulty to do in a workshop and none to whose lot it falls particularly, any unpleasantness is speedily got rid of by agreeing to do it among, or as pronounced, ‘ameng-hands’—between themselves... A party of juveniles do some mischief, none of them can be pointed out distinctly as the perpetrator, but the accuser never doubts but that it has been done ‘ameng-hands’.
1889 J. Nicholson Folk-speech E. Yorks. 91 Oor fooaks is undher-handed rayther then ower-handed, bud they'll mannish amang-hands.
2002 A. Kellett Yorks. Dict. (ed. 2) Amang-'ands, with the help of each other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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