单词 | hand-apply |
释义 | > as lemmashand-apply a. Instrumental, with the sense ‘with the hand, by hand’, esp. as distinguished from ‘by machine’, forming verbs and related adjectives and nouns, as: hand-apply, hand-carve, hand forge, hand-harvest, hand-tool; hand-cranked, hand-driven; hand-decorating, hand-scutching, etc. ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 322 Guðbyrne scan heard hondlocen; hringiren scir song in searwum. OE Beowulf (2008) 1937 Nænig þæt dorste deor geneþan..þæt hire an dæges eagum starede, ac him wælbende weotode tealde handgewriþene. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. iii. xxvi. 215/1 Hand-filling C[od]. ?1761 W. Cheape Descr. Acct. Machine for Scutching Flax 4 From this Machine itself, and the Flax is has scutched, it will appear, it has every Advantage..over..Hand-scutching. 1789 C. O'Brien Calico Printer's Assistant I. sig. C7v Painted between the work where handtooled, and round the sides. 1817 Let. 3 July in Proc. Trustees Linen & Hempen Manuf. Ireland App. 36 That [flax] which is hand-scutched is tolerable, although far from being so perfectly cleaned as what comes from Holland. 1888 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 10 Mar. 1/5 The Easter cards and art prints this year are particularly good in design and color. The hand decorating was never better. 1899 Elements Civil Engin. XI. 456 These rivets are to be hand-driven, but the required number will be obtained as though for machine-driven rivets. 1918 Encycl. Amer. IV. 236/1 Stamping was introduced to overcome the difficulty in hand tooling the cotton cloth. 1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 134/2 The three bearings, which were hand forged and turned down on the lathe. 1937 Times 5 July 14/6 The messages were coming from a hand-cranked generator. 1946 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 16 Oct. 8/2 An estimated 90 per cent of the sugar beet crop is hand-harvested in the middle west. 1953 R. S. Smith Approach to Philippines 58/2 All their supplies would have to be hand-carried forward from Dépapré. 1979 Rotarian Aug. 9/1 (advt.) Two bands of precious 22 kt. gold will be hand-applied to each bell. 1999 J. Toohey Capt. Bligh's Portable Nightmare (2000) ii. 46 A craftsman who hand-carved the pulley systems for hoisting sails. 2011 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 22/2 Assistants painstakingly hand-laced the models into skin-tight suede jeans. < as lemmas |
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