单词 | bloody hand |
释义 | bloody handn. 1. Heraldry. A red left hand cut off squarely at the wrist, the armorial device of Ulster, derived from the O'Neils. Also: the badge of baronets other than those of Scotland. Cf. red-hand n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of human or divine beings > [noun] > hand > red hand of Ulster bloody handc1571 baronet's hand1710 red-hand1795 c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. x. 138 Armes he gave the blodie hand, a tyrrible cognisaunce. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 39 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They under Oneale cry Laundarg-abo, that is, the bloody hand, which is Oneales badge. 1665 B. Gerbier Subsidium Peregrinantibus 65 The blazon is the Arms of Ulster, a bloudy Hand in a silver Field. 1756 Connoisseur No. 112. 675 Let a ducal, or an earl's coronet, or a bloody hand be distinguished upon her Capriole. 1834 F. Marryat Pacha I. i. 4 The bloody hand in the dexter chief of a baronet. 1874 Student's Hume xx. 367 Hence baronets bear on their shields the arms of Ulster, a bloody hand. 1925 J. Forbes-Robertson Player under Three Reigns v. 72 I might have known you were a baronet by your bloody hand! 1992 D. Kemp Pleasures & Treasures of Brit. vi. 231 The bloody hand is the Red Hand of Ulster, the badge of baronetcy. 2. One of the four kinds of trespass in the royal forest, by which the offender is judged to have killed a deer because blood is discovered on his person. Cf. red-handed adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offences against forest law backbear1598 bloody hand1598 dog-draw1598 stable-stand1598 back-carry- 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xviii. §9 Bloudy hand is, where a man is found coursing in the Forest..and is any manner of way imbrewed with bloud, or, that is found imbrewed with bloud..in the Forest, although he be not found Hunting or coursing there. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Bloody-Hand, one of the four kinds of Trespasses in the King's Forest. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. at Back-berinde Bloody-hand, i.e. having the hands suspiciously besmeared with blood. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. ii. i. 77 At bloody-hand, with hands or person bloody, as from the actual slaughter of game. 1979 Ottawa Law Rev. 9 815 'Back-bear', 'Bloody-hand', 'Dog-draw', and 'Stable-stand', and the like, are not, it is true, in an active state of jurisprudential development. 2005 R. Smith Peak District: Northern & Western Moors 93 Offenders could be arrested for crimes such as ‘bloody hand’ (if their hands were found to be covered in the blood of a freshly killed deer). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1571 |
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