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单词 handstroke
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handstroken.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)strəʊk/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌstroʊk/
Forms: see hand n. and stroke n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., stroke n.1
Etymology: < hand n. + stroke n.1 Compare later handystroke n. at handy adj. and adv. Compounds 1.
1. A strike or blow with the hand, or with a weapon held in the hand; frequently in to come to handstrokes: to begin hand-to-hand fighting; to come to blows. archaic and historical in later use.figurative in quot. c1840.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > come to close quarters
to fling togetherc1300
fewterc1440
to come to handstrokes1488
to come to (one's) hands (also hand)1524
to fight short1533
buckle1535
close1590
to close in1704
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > [noun]
dintc897
swengOE
stroke1297
dentc1325
swinga1400
stripec1475
handstroke1488
coup1523
cope1525
handystroke1542
hand stripe1543
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand
handstroke1488
hand blow?1569
cuff1570
handy blow1572
kerry-merry-buff1598
cuffing1610
handicuff1611
hander1829
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 999 At hand strakis fra thai to-gidder met, With Sotheroun blud thar wapynnys sone thai wet.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xx. 30 They shulde soone assemble to gether to fyght at hande strokes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xc After thei came to hande strokes: greate was the fight.
1551 King Edward VI Jrnl. 14 July in Literary Remains (1857) II. 331 He desired no innovation shuld be made, on thinges had bene so long in controversie, by handstrokes, but rather by commissionars' talke.
a1605 (c1471) Hist. Arrival King Edward IV (1838) 19 They joyned and came to hand-strokes, wherein his enemies manly..receyved them, as well in shotte as in hand-stroks whan they ioyned.
1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. ii. i. 266 After the Arrows and Darts were spent, the Armies came to handstrokes.
1752 H. ap D. Price Genuine Acct. Life & Trans. vi. 87 Running in to attack us at Hand-strokes.
c1840 H. E. Manning Let. to Archdeacon Hare in E. S. Purcell Life Cardinal Manning (1895) I. 163 Till I can come, as Hobbes says, to handstrokes with you.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 209 Never smitten with the point and edge of brass Nor hurt amid the hand-strokes.
1906 A. Conan Doyle Sir Nigel ix. 95 A hand-stroke or two with sword or mace may well be exchanged.
1998 Sc. Hist. Rev. 77 181 The clansmen would come to handstrokes once they had exhausted their arrows.
2. Campanology. A pull of the sally (sally n.2 2) of a bell rope so as to swing the bell through a full circle and coil the rope on the wheel; also called forestroke. Also: the position of a bell after such a pull is made.Opposed to backstroke.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > positions
sally1668
set1677
set-pull1677
handstroke1788
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > movements
sally1668
under-salley1668
fore-stroke1674
handstroke1886
1788 W. Jones et al. Key Art of Ringing 9 As the first half-pull sets the bell up at back-stroke..; so the next half-pull brings her at hand or fore-stroke, which is the position we suppose her to have set off from.
1879 B. Lomax Bells & Bellringers xii. 84 To move the bell from its first position to hand stroke is to ‘raise’ her; she is said to be ‘set’ at hand stroke and back stroke.
1886 W. Shipway Campanalogia (new ed.) ii. 59 This peal..has its changes in and out of course, the handstroke change of the treble lead being out, and the backstroke change in course throughout.
1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Church Bells (1904) 7Handstroke’ and ‘backstroke’..together constitute a complete or ‘whole’ pull.
1987 Amer. Math. Monthly 94 736 Each of the..changes on the..bells is rung once at handstroke and once at backstroke.
2003 E. Jupp Bell Watching v. 33 To commence ringing, the bell, after it has been raised, is always pulled off on the hand stroke, that is, with the sally. The ringer then pulls alternate hand strokes and back strokes with an even rhythm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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