单词 | handplay |
释义 | handplayn. archaic after Old English. Hand-to-hand fighting. Cf. sword-play n.In later use chiefly after or with reference to Old English.In quot. 1867 rendering quot. OE2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 eOE Battle of Brunanburh (Parker) 25 Myrce ne wyrndon he [h]eardes hondplegan hæleþa nanum. OE Exodus 327 Þraca [read þracu] wæs on ore, heard handplega. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1004 Hi sylfe sædon þæt hi næfre wyrsan handplegan on Angelcynne ne gemitton. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 350 They never met in all England with worse handplay. 1890 W. Morris in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Sept. 892 The folk in the hall..craned over each other's shoulders, so that they might lose no whit of the handplay. 1942 E. Birney David & Other Poems 15 Dire handplay in sewertrench or sandpit. 1994 B. Mitchell Invitation to Old Eng. & Anglo-Saxon Eng. (1995) iv. 300 The two royal leaders win everlasting glory as they exult in the hard handplay against their foes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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