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单词 ball of the hand
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ball of the hand
16. ball of the hand.
a. The ball of the thumb, or this together with the rounded part on the opposite edge of the hand (the hypothenar eminence); the heel of the hand. Also: the prominent part of the palm of the hand formed by the joints at the base of the fingers.
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?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 8 A Balle of þe hand or of þe fote, callus.
1704 J. Elsum Art of Painting after Ital. Manner (new ed.) 38 You must anoint that place..with Nut Oyl..and rubb it in with the Ball of your Hand.
1798 Regulations for Exercise Riflemen & Light Infantry (War Office) i. ii. 7 The right hand..holds the small part of the stock between the third and little finger and the ball of the hand.
1927 A. Elson Bk. Musical Knowl. (new ed.) xlvi. 415 The first harmonic..is obtained by touching the string lightly in the middle with the ball of the hand and plucking with the thumb or first finger.
1976 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 76 1816 Both pulsations and thrills are felt by using the ball of the hand (the palmar area below the fingers).
b. The palm of the hand; the central hollow of this. Now rare.
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ball of the hand1578
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man ix. 112 In the sole of the foote and ball of the hand grow no heares.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 269 Some men..will easily feele the lightest feather..laide vppon the ball of their hands.
1702 W. Cave Primitive Christianity (ed. 6) ii. 302 They used to tickle each other in the ball of the Hand, by which they were satisfied that the stranger really was of their Gang and Party.
1995 Internat. Rev. Aesthetics & Sociol. Mus. 26 51 The hand is depressed so that the neck [sc. of the Irish fiddle] is supported in the ball of the hand.
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