单词 | handy by |
释义 | > as lemmashandy by d. Chiefly regional (U.S. in later use). handy by (in predicative use): close to, nearby. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > near to [preposition] > conveniently near to handy by1824 1824 T. C. Croker Researches S. Ireland 89 A farmer's house handy by. 1885 W. B. Forfar Cornish Poems 10 And ef the sai es handy by, In the ‘Fisheries’ we will fish. 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being v. 62 The First Lieutenant..had the whaler's crew sleeping all handy by. 1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 892/2 The president of the historical society was handy by. < as lemmas |
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