single-handadj.
1. Performed, worked, managed, played, by one ‘hand’ or person. †single-hand cricket, = single-wicket n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > forms of cricket
single-wicket1735
single-hand cricket1761
double wicket1778
county cricket1855
snob1888
stump cricket1888
tip-and-run1891
stump1903
French cricket1907
Twenty202002
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] > acting alone > operated, etc., by person alone
single-hand1835
one-man1882
single-handed1886
1761 London Evening-post 21 Apr. A great Match at Single Hand Cricket was on Epsom Downs.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 245 In our single-hand ribbon-loom, the weaver can make but a piece and a half a week.
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 3 The gradual extension of ‘single-hand drilling’.
1893 Outing 22 143 A single-hand cruiser is a sail-boat..capable of being managed by one man.
2. single-hand weaver, one who works his loom without assistance. So single-hand trade.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who > who works without assistance
single-hand weaver1769
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who > who works without assistance > trade of
single-hand trade1841
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 i. 58 Several of the journeymen single-hand weavers were seized by their antagonists.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 491/1 The undertaking system applies now only to the single-hand trade in the country districts.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 491/1 Three-fourths of the single-hand weavers are women.
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adj.1761