单词 | among-hands |
释义 | among-handsadv. Now rare (English regional (northern) and Scottish in later use). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adv.?1609 |
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