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单词 handplay
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handplayn.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)pleɪ/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌpleɪ/
Forms: see hand n. and play n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., play n.
Etymology: < hand n. + play n.In quot. OE2 in a statement attributed to the Danes; however, there is no parallel formation attested for Old Danish nor is the word likely to have had an early Scandinavian cognate.
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.
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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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