单词 | change hand |
释义 | > as lemmasto change hand (a) To turn a horse's head from left to right or right to left, so it changes ‘hand’ or direction. In later use also: to make a horse lead with the opposite leg; (also of a horse) to lead with the opposite leg. Also to change hand. ΚΠ ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding ii. xxiv. sig. K.vi Geue him at the first but halfe a tourne on the right hande, and sodenlye chaunginge handes, let him close the double tourne on the leaft hande. 1584 T. Bedingfield tr. C. Corte Art of Riding iii. 10 When you haue brought him as it were within the compasse of an elne, you shall change hand, by litle & litle. 1696 W. Hope Suppl. Horsemanship xxvi. 47 in tr. J. de Solleysel Parfait Mareschal But if you intend to change hands upon Terra a Terra.., to which hand soever you are going let his shoulders first come in a little before you change him, & then help him with that Legg. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. i Change a Horse, or Change Hand, is to turn or bear the Horse's Head from one Hand to the other, from the Right to the Left, or from the Left to the Right. 1759 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. at Hand To guide a horse by the hand, is to turn or change hands upon one tread. 1825 J. Allen Princ. Mod. Riding for Ladies iii. 43 If you would change hands again to the left, your Whip acts as your left Leg did in going to the right. 1911 M. C. Grimsgaard Orig. Handbk. Riders ii. 170 To change hands during this practice, the turning on forehand to the side, where the horse's hind feet are stepping sideways, is most suitable to the purpose. 2001 M. Diggle Masters of Equitation Canter 91 There are horsemen who cause their horses to change hand, in order to ease the left leg. to change hand (c) To pass from one person's hands or possession to another's. Also to change hand (rare), †to change the hand (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] > hand over to another > change hands to change hands1614 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. xii. §.3 146 The Athenians ruling fiue daies, the Lacedaemonians other fiue... The common profit..must of necessitie be very slowly aduanced, where consultation, resolution, and performance are so often to change hands. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. x. 529 The place however only chang'd the hand without going out of the Family. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. ii. 72 Money changeth hands. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 467 When property changes hands..such taxes have frequently been imposed upon it as necessarily take away some part of its capital value. View more context for this quotation 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 100 The property in the soil must change hands. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 160 The whole soil would soon change hands. 1901 Mineral Industry 9 209 Once again a buying movement set in, and Lake copper changed hand at 16.375c. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. ii. 33 But when cash money starts changing hands, that's something else. 2008 Nespresso No. 2. 72/2 The green beans..have already changed hands several times. < as lemmas |
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