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handstroke|ˈhændstrəʊk|
Also handi-, handystroke.
[f. hand n. + stroke. For the variant handistroke, handy stroke, cf. hand-blow and handy a.]
†1. A stroke or blow with the hand. to come to handstrokes (handy strokes), to come to blows or hand-to-hand fighting. So to be at handstrokes, etc.
α1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xx. 30 They shulde soone assemble to gether to fyght at hande strokes. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 90 After thei came to hande strokes: greate was the fight. 1625–6Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1486 Immediately we came to handstrokes. c1840Manning Let. to Archdeacon Hare in Purcell Life (ed. 4) I. 163 Till I can come, as Hobbes says, to handstrokes with you.
β1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 50 When thei came to handystrokes. 1589Disc. Voy. Spaine & Port. (1881) 104 Having beaten an Enemie at handie strokes. 1602Hist. Eng. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 455 To..bring the matter to handy strokes. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Wars iii. xix. (1733) 687 Provoking them to handy Strokes.
2. attrib. (See quot.)
1880C. A. W. Troyte in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 219/2 [The bell] would in swinging past that point raise the rope; this gives the ringer a second pull..and this is called the ‘handstroke’ pull. |