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ˈhand-wrist Obs. exc. dial.
[OE. hand-wrist, -wyrst, f. hand + wrist, wyrst, OFris. wriust wrist, and instep, Ger. rist instep.]
1. The wrist or joint of the hand. Now dial.
a1000Ags. Gloss in Wr.-Wülcker 216/24 Cuba, i. ulna, elnboga, uel hondwyrst. c1050Ibid. 356/20 Articulus, handwyrst. c1325Gloss W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 147 Le cou de la meyn, the hand wriste. 1560Frampton in Strype Ann. Ref. I. xx. 244 The blood sprang out at my hand-wrists, where I was tied. 1650Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Carlyle, Colonel Whalley only cut in the handwrist. 1809Parkins Culpepper's Eng. Physic. Enl. 212 Bruised and applied to the soles of the feet and hand-wrists. [In Somersetsh., Wiltsh., and Glouces. Dialects.]
†2. A cuff. Obs. rare.
1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 229 Ruffles and Hand-wrists, to appear in sight, and represent Shirt-Sleeves. |