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single-hand, a.
[f. single a. 18 + hand n.]
1. Performed, worked, managed, played, by one ‘hand’ or person. † single-hand cricket, = single-wicket.
1761in Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 54 A great match at single-hand cricket. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 245 In our single-hand ribbon-loom, the weaver can make but a piece and a half a week. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 3 The gradual extension of ‘single-hand drilling’. 1893Outing XXII. 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.
1768Ann. Reg. i. 58 Several of the journeymen single-hand weavers were seized by their antagonists. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 491/1 The undertaking system applies now only to the single-hand trade in the country districts. Ibid., Three-fourths of the single-hand weavers are women. |