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单词 five and a reach
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five and a reach
16. five and a reach: (esp. in dice-playing) an action of reaching out with the hand to take or change something surreptitiously. Obsolete.Perhaps with reference to the five fingers of the hand with a play on the number five in dice.
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1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. B. 2 Others shall haue their fingers of the nature of Lyme twigges, to get most parte of their liuing with fiue and a reache.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iii. sig. D6 He calles for come on fiue, and there it is: Or else heele haue it with fiue and a reach.
1609 T. Dekker Rauens Almanacke sig. C Take heede you my nimble fingred Gentlemen, that come to your possessions by fiue and a reach.
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