单词 | handworking |
释义 | handworkingn. The action or practice of working with the hands, (in later use) esp. as opposed to with machinery; manual labour. Also: an instance of this.In early use with reference to surgery (see the etymology). In quot. ?a1425: a surgical procedure. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > manual work handcraftOE craftworkOE handworkOE manual labour?1406 handworking?a1425 manoeuvre1479 hand labour1517 handiwork1525 handicrafta1535 manuary1581 mechanic1605 manufacture1625 arm labour1677 mechanics1726 hag1797 hag-work1841 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 139 (MED) Helpez of teþe after Auicen ar..bi..fricacionz, subfumigacionz..& handwirchingez [?c1425 Paris honde wirchynges, L. manuum operationes]. ?a1450 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (BL Add. 12056) (1894) 7 For þe ende & þe prophyte of surgerye ys of hand wyrchynge [L. in manus operatione]..whyche techiþ vs to worche with handes in Mannes body. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. A.jv Ipocras sayth, that Surgerie is hande working in mans body. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalm xix. 1 in Compl. Wks. (1923) III. 207 The firmament..Showes His hand-working wonders [L. opera manuum eius]. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. vi. 82 Opening a large Cypress-Chest, she shew'd him great variety of excellent pieces of her own hand-working. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. iii. i. 333 Hand-working..never gives an average weekly or annual product at all comparable to that of a like machine equably driven by power. 1864 E. Burritt Walk to John O'Groats xiv. 283 The cost has been reduced, from the old handworking to the present process. 1919 Stone June 275 Even in handworking.., carborundum blocks and grains are used in place of the old abrasives. 2008 C. Lefteri Plastics Handbk. 185 A material that bridges plastic mass production and handworking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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