Nelsonn.1
/ˈnɛlsn/, U.S. /ˈnɛls(ə)n/ I. Compounds.
1. Nelson touch n. an approach to a situation or problem typical of Nelson, esp. in being characterized by bold action or self-confident leadership; also (in later, humorous, use) the turning of a blind eye to something (cf. Nelson eye n. at sense 5).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > qualities of
Nelson touch1805
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > [noun]
misknowledgea1500
unregarding1539
passing-by1577
disregard1661
ignoring1846
ignoration1854
ignoral1866
Nelson touch1968
ghosting2012
1805 Ld. Nelson Let. 25 Sept. in C. Oman Nelson (1947) xix. 607 I am anxious to join the fleet, for it would add to my grief if any other man was to give them the Nelson touch, which we say is warranted never to fail.
a1842 A. Cunningham Brit. Sailor's Song in Poems & Songs (1847) ii. 75 He launched his terror and his strength, Our sea-born pride to tame; They came—they got the Nelson-touch, And vanish'd as they came.
1898 H. Newbolt Island Race 26 But cared greatly to serve God and the king, And keep the Nelson touch.
1942 C. Dane (title) The Nelson touch: an anthology of Lord Nelson's letters.
1963 Economist 12 Jan. 90/1 There was a ‘Nelson touch’ about the bloodless occupation of Jadotville.
1968 B. Turner Sex Trap xiii. 116 A little of the old Nelson touch is a big help in getting on with other departments.
1971 ‘D. Cory’ Sunburst i. 20 Only the British, in Intelligence matters, retain the Nelson touch. What's Fedora doing in Spain?.. Up goes the old telescope. Fedora? I see no Fedora.
1991 M. Brogden On Mersey Beat (BNC) He could always pick and choose over whom to arrest and on whom to give the Nelson touch.
2. Nelson knife n. a combined knife and fork for the use of person disabled in one arm or hand.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > combination
Nelson knife1873
Spork1909
1873 Catal. London Internat. Exhib. ix. 142 Razors, engraved with Chinese characters; Masticating Knives; Nelson Knives.
1886 London Med. Rec. 15 May 228/1 One of the instruments should be a Nelson knife, which is a combined knife and fork.
1902 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Oct. 692/2 The combination was what is called the ‘Nelson knife’, after its most distinguished user. The..end of the blade, instead of being rounded off in the ordinary way, turns up at a right angle in its own plane, and is divided into four fork-prongs.
1979 Therapy 13 Sept. 5/2 Did the ‘experts’ know how difficult it was to remove bacon rind with a Nelson knife?
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Jan. 12 He says..‘The special crockery and cutlery helps customers with arthritis or a weak grip to eat in the store restaurant.’ One of the pieces of cutlery is a Nelson knife.
3. Nelson cake n. British regional (chiefly Liverpool) a cake consisting of crushed biscuits, dried fruit, etc., soaked in syrup, and sandwiched between two layers of pastry.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes
honey appleeOE
barley-cake1393
seed cakea1400
cake?a1425
pudding-cake?1553
manchet1562
biscuit cake1593
placent1598
poplin1600
jumbal1615
bread pudding1623
semel1643
wine-cakea1661
Shrewsbury cake1670
curd cake1675
fruitcake1687
clap-bread1691
simnel cake1699
orange-flower cake1718
banana cake1726
sweet-cake1726
torte1748
Naples cake1766
Bath cake1769
gofer1769
yeast-cake1795
nutcake1801
tipsy-cake1806
cruller1808
baba1813
lady's finger1818
coconut cake1824
mint cake1825
sices1825
cup-cake1828
batter-cake1830
buckwheat1830
Dundee seed cake1833
fat-cake1839
babka1846
wonder1848
popover1850
cream-cake1855
sly-cake1855
dripping-cake1857
lard-cake1858
puffet1860
quick cake1865
barnbrack1867
matrimony cake1871
brioche1873
Nelson cake1877
cocoa cake1883
sesame cake1883
marinade1888
mystery1889
oblietjie1890
stuffed monkey1892
Greek bread1893
Battenberg1903
Oswego cake1907
nusstorte1911
dump cake1912
Dobos Torte1915
lekach1918
buckle1935
Florentine1936
hash cake1967
space cake1984
1859 Househ. Encycl. II. 367/2 Small cakes called Nelson's cakes or balls, made in small tea-cups.]
1877 T. A. Croal Bk. about Trav. iv. 433 Sweet Sandwiches. Nelson Cakes and Marmalade Tartlets.
1909 Daily Chron. 16 Dec. 4/7 The Nelson cake consists of two thin pieces of reputed pastry, with a dark agglomeration between them of currants and sweet mush.
1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 42 Nelson cake, a cake made from compressed, broken biscuits, pastry remnants etc. with dried fruit added: the whole soaked in syrup or burnt sugar and stacked in great piles.
2009 C. Morey Dark is Dawn 13 Nelson cakes, doughnuts bursting with jam, Banbury cakes.
4. Nelson's blood n. rum.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > rum > [noun] > kinds of rum
Jamaica1775
white rum1816
New England1827
black jack1863
dark rum1864
black rum1872
light rum1872
Nelson's blood1905
Bacardi1921
pinga1928
navy1946
screech1946
anejo1983
1905 R. W. Free Seven Years' Hard v. 122 Rum is ‘Nelson's blood’.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 166 Nelson's Blood, rum. Old Navy, and probably derived from the old story of the sailors on board the Victory tapping the cask in which Nelson's body was brought home and drinking the spirits.
1968 Telegraph (Brisbane) 26 June 45 To preserve Nelson's body it was placed in the ship's rum ration—that's why rum is now often referred to as ‘Nelson's blood’.
1970 A. Draper Swansong for Rare Bird ix. 76 After all the Nelson's blood he'd stashed away the night before, I was surprised to see Gorgeous already there.
1988 Independent 10 Dec. (Mag.) 7/1 To this day neat rum is still known in the Royal Navy as ‘Nelson's Blood’.
2004 A. D. Blue Compl. Bk. Spirits iv. 78 After Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson's death at Trafalgar in 1805, grog also became known as Nelson's Blood.
5. Nelson eye n. (also Nelson's eye) a blind eye. Usually figurative, esp. in to turn a nelson's eye to. Cf. eye n.1 Phrases 2t.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore [verb (intransitive)]
overhipa1325
to hide one's facea1382
to look aside1530
to look beside ——1533
not to hear on that side1548
to look through the fingers1549
to pull away the shoulder1560
connive1602
to turn a (also the) blind eye1698
to bury (or hide) one's head in the sand1844
Nelson eye1893
not to want to know1948
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission by non-intervention or toleration
sufferancea1300
allowancea1402
tholance1446
tholing1457
sufferingc1460
low1535
connivinga1648
Nelson eye1893
1872 J. L. Seton Notes Operations N. German Troops xv. 219 My friend Rosen was apt at times to have an ear as bad as Nelson's eye, when signals for retreat were being made.]
1893 Chem. Trade Jrnl. 22 July 52/2 The nuisance inspector..has a Nelson eye for the chimney of his employers on the ‘Board’.
1958 Amer. Q. 10 380 Disturbing as the report may be, it would be a pity if the Indian student were to turn a patriotic Nelson-eye to the many compelling truths revealed therein.
1973 J. Leasor Mandarin Gold i. 13 He makes most out of opium. Turning a Nelson eye to a trade he should be stamping out.
1986 Ceylon Daily News 4 Dec. 23/2 The papers variously reported that they had ‘turned a nelson's eye’ to pleas from ‘the men in black coats’ at the fag end of an agitation.
1995 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 1 425/1 The research role..still has gaps, such as when an awareness of malpractice causes him to employ something of a ‘Nelson's Eye’.
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6. Sport (originally Australian). Also (esp. in early use) Lord Nelson. The number 111; a score of 111 (or its multiples) (esp. in Darts and Cricket).In Cricket, a score of 111 by a team or by a batter has come to be considered unlucky (see Note at Etymology).
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1847 H. Melville Omoo xv. 57 The cooper had a true sailor admiration for Lord Nelson... ‘Look you; one man—hang me, half a man—with one leg, one arm, one eye—hang me, with only a piece of a carcass, flogged your whole shabby nation.’
1903 Gloucestershire Chron. 5 Dec. 5/4 He lost one eye, one arm, and one leg before he died.]
1927 Recorder (S. Austral.) 17 May 3/2 Golf. Young Peter Geddes played the course in Lord Nelson (111). One eye, one arm, one nose.
1936 Smith’s Weekly (Sydney) 9 May 16/2 One Eye, One Arm—In Melbourne there is a motor cyclist whose number plate reads:— Vic 111 Lord Nelson.
1938 Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 3 Mar. 2/7 [Darts in London] Like most sports of skill, darts has created a language of its own. Some of the most commonly used expressions are:—‘Lord Nelson’— meaning 111 the three ones. Lord Nelson possessed one eye, one arm, and on nose.
1952 Dowerin (W. Austral.) Guardian 3 Apr. 4/3 Young Kevin Randall was run out trying to give Robertson the strike. Robertson remained, not out, 111—‘Lord Nelson’.
1975 Aberdeen Evening Express 2 Aug. 10/6 The score reached 111, the deadly Nelson as it is known in cricket circles and it was deadly again.
1980 N. W. Schur Eng. English (ed. 2) 303 Nelson, all the ones as in 111. Considered unlucky for a batsman or a side to be on that figure. Double Nelson is 222.
1983 Observer 22 May 42/5 Simon Doggart..braved two overs of Clarke and went on to muster 22 before being yorked by Monkhouse at the dreaded Nelson—111.
1990 Independent 13 Sept. 39/4 David Shepherd, the umpire, was..hopping from one foot to another as various ‘Nelsons’, 111 or its multiples, were on the scoreboard five times.
2001 Evening Post (Bristol) (Nexis) 29 June 70 Australia, asked to chase only 130 for victory, were all out for ‘Nelson’—111.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
nelsonn.2
/ˈnɛlsn/, U.S. /ˈnɛls(ə)n/ Wrestling.
A hold in which both arms are passed under an opponent's arms from behind and the hands or wrists are clasped on the back of the neck (usually double nelson, full nelson); (also) a hold in which one arm is thrust under the opponent's corresponding arm and the hand placed on the back of the opponent's neck (usually half nelson). Also figurative.Also (in early use): †to put (full) Nelson on (someone) (obsolete).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres
swengOE
turn?c1225
castc1400
trip1412
fall?a1425
foil1553
collar1581
lock1598
faulx1602
fore-hip1602
forward1602
inturn1602
mare1602
hug1617
disembracement1663
buttock1688
throw1698
back-lock1713
cross-buttock1713
flying horse1713
in holds1713
buttocker1823
chip1823
dogfall1823
cross-buttocker1827
hitch1834
bear hug1837
backfall1838
stop1840
armlock1841
side hug1842
click1846
catch-hold1849
back-breaker1867
back-click1867
snap1868
hank1870
nelson1873
headlock1876
chokehold1886
stranglehold1886
hip lock1888
heave1889
strangle1890
pinfall1894
strangler's grip1895
underhold1895
hammer-lock1897
scissor hold1897
body slam1899
scissors hold1899
armbar1901
body scissors1903
scissors grip1904
waist-hold1904
neck hold1905
scissors1909
hipe1914
oshi1940
oshi-dashi1940
oshi-taoshi1940
pindown1948
lift1958
whip1958
Boston crab1961
grapevine1968
powerbomb1990
1873 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Mar. 6/2 Heyes..put his arms under the opponent's and his hands at the back of his neck, and then threw him over. This move is called ‘full Nelson’... The coroner expressed a hope that the Lancashire wrestling rules, as regarded ‘Nelson’, would be altered.
1873 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Mar. 4/2 It would be advisable for the scientific wrestler not to put ‘full Nelson’ on, except in the case of a sober antagonist.
1874 Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 6/1 In the course of the struggle the prisoner resorted to a trick familiarly known as ‘putting Nelson on’.
1875 Chambers’s Jrnl. 24 Apr. 267/2 Stubbs..seizes the luckless Jumper in a terrible gripe, known to the initiated as a Full Nelson.
1877 Blackburn Standard 17 Nov. 6/5 Hooler pushed one arm between deceased's leg [sic], and placing the other arm round his neck, putting on what was commonly called the ‘Half Nelson’, he threw him down.
1889 W. Armstrong Wrestling in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 233 Probably the most dangerous move in Lancashire and Cornwall and Devon wrestling..is what is called the ‘Double Nelson’.
1893 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Feb. 211 Among the many holds the Nelson is the most popular one with wrestlers, while the half-Nelson and half-walch-lock are next in order.
1900 A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 644 The principal chips associated with catch as catch can wrestling are the double Nelson, the half Nelson, the heave, the Lancashire lock, the flying mare and the three-quarter Nelson.
1930 P. MacDonald Link ix. 168 They lose Dinwater—or lose half the Nelson they've got on him, so immediately they switch on to you.
1964 E. Baker Fine Madness xxi. 246 Jago was behind Shillitoe, holding him in a full nelson.
1983 P. Bills Sportsviewers Guide Wrestling 14 The nelson holds, in which the competitor traps an arm and twists or pulls his rival into a defensive position.
1989 Wine Spectator 31 Aug. 6/1 Thick and concentrated, with lush anise, black cherry, raspberry and..a full nelson tannic finish.
1990 Outdoor Life Apr. 52/1 We mastered the half nelson before we swam a stroke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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