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单词 hander
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handern.1

Brit. /ˈhandə/, U.S. /ˈhændər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hand v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < hand v. + -er suffix1.
1. A person who hands or passes something to another person.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > passing with the hand > one who
hander1678
1678 London Gaz. No. 1288/4 The Hander of it to the Press.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 42 An excellent hander of muffins and cake.
1880 A. Brassey Sunshine & Storm in East ii. ix. 351 The man who now possesses the most influence in Turkey is..the Cafidje, or maker and hander of the Imperial cups of coffee.
1931 R. Ferguson Brontës went to Woolworths xiii. 144 For the time, we were transformed into handers of cake to a visitor.
1988 New Yorker 7 Nov. 114 There would be handers. They would hand the tobacco leaves from the tobacco trucks to the loopers.
2. A person who holds and incites a gamecock in a fight or contest. Cf. handler n.1 4a(a). Now rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting > cock-fighter
cock-setter1260
cockfighter1527
cockera1655
setter1688
hander1746
setter-to1794
1746 Acct. Cock-fight in 42nd Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1881) 166 In such manner as is usual for handers to account to ten.
1779 J. Hawthorn Poems 17 On him I lost my good half-crown, I knock'd great Armstrong, the hander, down.
1794 Sporting Mag. Jan. 169/2 To these [cockfight enthusiasts], another class became annexed, called ‘handers’, or ‘setters-to’.
1833 Sportsman's Cabinet Feb. 233/1 Nawab Saib (said Meerza, his hander) you had better draw—your cock is dying.
1876 Pet-stock, Pigeon, & Poultry Bull. July 72/2 After this, his opponent turned him heels over head at every stroke, but as often as his hander took him up, he still kept grasping for something.
1906 Country Life 29 Dec. 959/2 Sutton related that he was present at the match in question as feeder and hander to Mr. Cust.

Compounds

With adverbs, in compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of hand, as hander down, hander in, hander out, etc. (see hand v. Phrasal verbs).
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1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici 22 Grant they were The handers down.
1735 Prompter 26 Sept. The original Handers-down of this mistaken Tradition.
1780 E. Capell Notes & Var. Readings Shakespeare II. iii. 75/2 Jones..was also the hander-down of that anecdote.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. xix. 303 The hander down of his likeness to posterity.
1889 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 16 Nov. 397/1 Mr. Ellinor expressed the opinion that it was originally intended the hander over of a poison should be qualified.
1903 H. R. Hall in Ann. Brit. School Athens 1901–2 8 165 Apparently Müller regarded the Keftiu not as themselves genuine Mycenaeans, but as mere handers on of Mycenaean objects.
1922 Broome County Farm & Home Bureau News Nov. 14/2 In many instances a newspaper will identify the source of an item by placing the name of the hander-in at the beginning.
1944 F. Clune Red Heart 5 He was..a hander-out of liberal land-grants to sycophantic favourites.
2010 H. Ordway Not God's Type ii. 15 One time I was accosted on the way to class by an earnest hander-out of tracts: ‘Are y'all saved?’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

handern.2

Brit. /ˈhandə/, U.S. /ˈhændər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hand n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < hand n. + -er suffix1. Compare -hander comb. form and discussion at -er suffix1 1.
slang. Now rare.
A blow on the hand, esp. one inflicted with a cane on a child as punishment.In quot. 1829: (apparently) a blow with the hand, a punch.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand
handstroke1488
hand blow?1569
cuff1570
handy blow1572
kerry-merry-buff1598
cuffing1610
handicuff1611
hander1829
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the hand
hander1829
1829 P. Egan Boxiana new ser. II. 623 Ned missed a heavy upright hander; that might otherwise have done mischief in the chancery style.
1851 W. Lennox Percy Hamilton I. ii. 52 I saw the effect produced by the application of one [rod] upon the chapped hands of a young urchin, in what was called a ‘three-cutter—a hander’.
1868 J. Greenwood Purgatory Peter the Cruel v. 149 You've been playing the wag, and you've got to take your handers.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 1 July 7/4 The matron gave her six ‘handers’ with a cane.
1905 Daily Chron. 30 Nov. 6/3 He knocked the cigarette out of the boy's mouth, and gave him two ‘handers’ the next morning for breaking the rule.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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