单词 | hand wrist |
释义 | hand wristn. . 1. The wrist. Cf. arm-wrist n. at arm n.1 Compounds. Now regional (chiefly English regional (south-western) and Newfoundland).In quot. eOE1 rendering classical Latin articulus, usually ‘joint, finger’, rare in spec. sense ‘wrist’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > forearm > wrist hand wristeOE wrist?a940 rascettea1400 shackle-bone1571 shackle1788 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 71 Articulus, handwyrst. eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 132 Cubitus, se earm betweonan elnbogan & handwyrste. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 98 Cubitum, fædm betwux elboga & handwyrste. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 147 Le cou de la meyn [glossed] the hand wriste. 1560 J. Frampton in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) xx. 233 The Blood sprang out at my Hand-Wrists, where I was tied. 1594 I. G. tr. G. di Grassi True Arte Def. sig. Ee2v He perceiueth his hand-wrist to be well strengthened. 1650 O. Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 324 Colonel Whalley only cut in the handwrist. 1675 L. Addison Present State Jews xiii. 104 They sit and apply them to their Foreheads and Hand-wrists, and call them Tephillim. 1792 J. Wimpey Let. 10 Aug. in Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) 6 115 The stems of some of my plants are now seven feet high, and nearly as thick as a man's hand-wrist. 1858 R. T. S. Lowell New Priest in Conception Bay I. ix. 82 Jesse an' his crew made straight for Back-Cove an' got in, though they were weak-handed, for one had hurted his hand-wrist. 1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 86 Poor little Clara West 'ath a-valled down pin tap tha ice an' brawked 'er 'and-wrist. 1902 in Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 45/2 [Somerset.] He dragged me all up the court by the hand-wristes. 1965 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 238/2 He drove the boathook down to his hand wrist, and he hooked un there in his shirt. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for arms > [noun] > covering for wrist > cuff cuff1522 hand wrist1707 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > parts of > cuff cuff1522 sleeve-hand?c1547 wristband1571 handcuff1591 hand wrist1707 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 264 Ruffles and Hand-wrists, to appear in sight, and represent Shirt-sleeves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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