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单词 to strike hands
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to strike hands
a. to strike hands (said of two parties to a bargain): To take one another by the hand in confirmation of a bargain; hence, to ratify a bargain with (another). Hence †to strike one's truth, to pledge one's truth by ‘striking hands’; †to strike hearts (nonce-use).
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > in a specific way
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to strike handsc1440
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)] > join hands in promising
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c1440 Sir Eglam. 246 ‘Ȝys,’ seyde the erle, ‘here myn honde!’ Hys trowthe to hym he strake.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke handes, as men do that agre apon a bargen or covenant, je touche la.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Esther Apocr. xiv. 8 They haue stroken hands with their idoles, That thei wil abolish the thing that thou..hast ordained.
1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court D 2 The Apostle Paul receiued not his function by hands either imposed or strooken, but by especiall reuelation,..The hands imposed Acts 13. were commendatiue, the right handes strooken, Gal. 1 were stipulative.
1652 J. Shirley Brothers i. i, in Six New Playes (1653) I'l find a portion for her, if you strike Affectionate heartes.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 37 This Son of Shaddai, I say, having stricken hands with his Father, and promised that he would be his servant to recover his Mansoul again, stood by his resolution. View more context for this quotation
1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 4) I. xi. 112 Three things every tradesman ought to consider before he strikes hands with a stranger, that is, before he is bound for another.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 167 Bargains in Smithfield are confirmed by the striking of hands—the palms together.
1885 Times 10 Mar. 4/1 The parties had ‘struck their hands together’ in the usual Yorkshire fashion, but before the delivery of the calves.
1915 Nation (N.Y.) 10 June 642/1 Stories about McKinley or Roosevelt having struck hands in the dark with France and England.
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