单词 | overhanded |
释义 | overhandedadj.adv. A. adj. 1. Supplied with too many workers; overstaffed. Cf. hand n. 14. Now rare (English regional in later use). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [adjective] > staffed > overstaffed overhanded1765 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 i. 5 Those children..are now set out to trades..by which means most trades are over-handed. 1838 Biblical Repertory Oct. 632 Those properties which were overhanded before, when proprietors were compelled to support more dependents than they required. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Owerhanded, having too many helpers for the amount of work. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Aug. 11/2 ‘The trade is over-handed’, the men cry. 1889 J. Nicholson Folk-Speech E. Yorks. 91 Oor fooaks is undher-handed rayther then ower-handed. 2. Characterized by bringing the hand from above downwards; performed with the hand raised above the shoulder, overarm. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [adjective] > with the hand over the object held overhanded1827 1827 J. A. Stone Tancred i. v. 21 The fracture being on the left side of the Os frontis, denotes that it must have been an overhanded blow. 1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §454 Bowled by an over-handed twist. 1950 J. Hersey Wall v. i. 426 She leaps across a room with an overhanded windmill-gesture..in an attempt to teach me how to throw a hand-grenade. 1991 Orlando Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 5 July a3 We do not train that overhanded striking motion the officer was using. B. adv. = overhand adv. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [adverb] > with the hand over or under the object held above-hand1581 overhand1598 overhanded1849 underhand1885 1849 Punch 14 July 12/1 In those Days..they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand; but now they fling it over-handed from the Elbow. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxvi. 261 The person..tosses the money into the air, catches it over-handed, and retires. 1939 Times 29 May 3/5 He played a half-hearted shot to the same bowler, who took a return catch wide and overhanded. 1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 10 He wolfs his piled-up hot dog, tearing off small pieces for Blackie and throwing them overhanded to the farthest corner of the patio. Compounds overhanded knot n. = overhand knot n. at overhand adv. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1852 W. Brady Kedge-anchor (ed. 6) i. 22 To make an overhanded knot, you pass the end of the rope over the standing part and through the bight. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy (1886) 91 Q. How do you make a reef-knot?.. First make an over-handed knot round the foot of the sail, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.1765 |
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