| 单词 | great hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat hand d. The entire arm, from the shoulder to the tips of the fingers. In early use more fully †great hand. Now Caribbean. [Originally after corresponding use of classical Latin manus and ancient Greek χείρ; with great hand compare post-classical Latin manus magna (1363 in Chauliac; compare quot. ?a1425). In later Caribbean use probably after a West African language; compare Igbo aka, Twi nsá, Kongo kôko, etc., all in sense ‘hand, arm’.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] armeOE brawna1382 hand?a1425 branch1594 bridle arm1622 shield-arm1640 smiter1673 sword-arm1687 fin1785 pistol arm1800 spade-arm1804 pinion1848 liver wing1855 bow-arm1860 meathook1919 gun1973 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 13v Þe arme, þat is said þe grete hand [L. manus magna], which Galien..diuideþ in to 3 grete parties: One forsoþ þe vlne, anoþer forsoþ þe arme, Anoþer forsoþ is named atrochita, þat is þe litel hand [L. parua manus]. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. N.iij The Thigh, Legge, and Foote, are compounde and made as the great arme or hande. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 728 The vpper ioyntes are called by the common name of the Hand, for the Ancients accounted the whole member from the shoulder to the fingers ends to bee all the Hand. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 302 The limbs are divided into the hands and feet, and the hand into the shoulder, cubit, and extremity. 1752 J. Smith Portrait of Old Age (ed. 3) 49 Now the anatomical hand contains not only the carpus, metacarpus & phalanges digitorum, but the whole superior artus. 1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad) 29 Oct. Ah wos'n near enuff to ketch she but some odder fellars save she from brakin she foot; or she han, and perhaps she neck. 1967 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 12 Nov. 4 With the..infant cradled comfortably in his hands. 2009 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago 418/2 He get chop in he hand, just below the shoulder. < as lemmas |
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