单词 | handcloth |
释义 | handclothn. A small cloth or towel for wiping or drying the hands (cf. face cloth n. (c) at face n. Compounds 2). Also: a handkerchief. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > rubbing with towel > towel > hand-towel handclothOE hand towel1454 handclout1788 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief coverchiefc1305 cloutc1380 muckender1420 napkin1436 handkerchief1530 handkercher1531 mocket1537 wiper1587 nose-cloth1589 pocket handkerchief1645 handcloth1676 mouchoira1685 pocket-clotha1704 wipe1708 volet1789 kerchief1814 snotter1823 lachrymatory1825 nose-rag1840 nose-wiper1840 sweat-rag1843 lachrymary1854 sneezer1857 stook1859 snottinger1864 snot-rag1888 hanky1895 penwiper1902 paper handkerchief1907 nose-wipe1919 snitch-rag1940 paper hankie1959 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxix. 424 Ic geseo godes engel standende ætforan þe mid handclaðe [L. linteo]: & wipað ðine swatigan leomu. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 163 Hire handcloðes and hire bord cloðes [ben] makede wite. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 16* Table, towayle, et nape; Boorde, handcloth, and metecloth. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 773/10 Hoc manitergium, a handclothe. 1582 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 125 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Hand-claith, Tua ellis lynnyng clayth to be tua hand claythis to the menistratioun of baptisme. 1614–15 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) III. 565 Twelf ellis of rounder claith to be twa buirdclaithis,..foure towallis and twa handclaithis. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Hand-cloth, a handkercher. 1820 Ann. Reg. Apr. 110/1 At the bottom of a large tub in the yard near the garden-gate,..witness found a hand-cloth and another apron by him now produced. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxi. 318 It blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped. 1904 Amer. Med. 9 Jan. 66/2 Care should be exercised to turn the head from other persons and to place the handcloth over the mouth while coughing. 1989 J. M. Dillard Lost Years Prologue 3 The stains on his handcloth changed from dark green to bright. 2008 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 29 Mar. 4 I expected extremely attentive, nice women with glossy black hair to be handing us lemongrass-scented handcloths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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