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单词 put one's hands to
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to put one's hand(s) to (also †unto)
(a) to put one's hand(s) to (also †unto): to set about, undertake (a task or piece of work). Also occasionally without to. Cf. to set (one's) hand to at set v.1 19c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)]
tillc897
stightlea1375
stretcha1375
wrestlea1382
to put it forthc1390
to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398
paina1400
takea1400
to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430
to make great force?c1450
makec1485
to stir one's stumpsa1500
to bestir one's stumps1549
to make work1574
put1596
bestira1616
operate1650
to lay out1659
to be at pains1709
exerta1749
tew1787
maul1821
to take (the) trouble1830
to pull outc1835
bother1840
trouble1880
to buck up1890
hump1897
to go somea1911
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ii. 446 Now putte we oure hondes..to descriue som propurtees of heuene.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6056 Þat to þi seruyce puttys þair hands.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xii. 18 All yt thou puttest thine hande vnto.
1631 J. Preston Treat. Effectual Faith 45 If God himselfe put not his hand to the worke no man is able to believe.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 609 I will not put my hand to redresse it.
1758 B. Thornton Idler 22 July 121 My Wife, though she could be of as much use as a Shopman to me, if she would put her hand to it, is now only in my way.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 86 Among us a' a ravell'd hesp ye've made, Sae now, put too your hand, an help to red.
1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. 163 A sober, rough-and-ready ‘Totty’, who is able to..put his hand to any thing.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. ix. 80 Whatever he put his hand to, he did it ‘with all his might’.
1966 F. Nwapa Efuru viii. 170 Any trade she put her hand to was profitable.
1999 A. Desai Fasting, Feasting (2000) ii. 21 There was not a thing Uma put her hand to that did not turn to failure.
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to put (one's) hand(s) on (also †in, †to, †unto, †upon)
(i) to put (one's) hand(s) on (also †in, to, unto, upon): to lay hands on; to get hold of, seize. In later use: to find, to be able to get. Also figurative.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)]
gripea900
afangOE
to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE
repeOE
atfonga1000
keepc1000
fang1016
kip1297
seize1338
to seize on or upon1399
to grip toc1400
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
comprise1423
forsetc1430
grip1488
to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495
compass1509
to catch hold1520
hap1528
to lay hold (up)on, of1535
seisin?c1550
cly1567
scratch1582
attach1590
asseizea1593
grasp1642
to grasp at1677
collar1728
smuss1736
get1763
pin1768
grabble1796
bag1818
puckerow1843
nobble1877
jump1882
snaffle1902
snag1962
pull1967
1455 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 81 That the said Sir James sal nocht put handis na tak na vitalis at the port of Leth bot [etc.].]
1495 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 419/2 The lordis..deliueris that..the said James [etc.]..sulde put ther handis to the saidis landis and males therof.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxii. 8 ([He] shal sweare) that he hath not put his hande vnto his neghbours good.
1734 Let. 1 July in J. Mercer Three Lett. (1748) 2 Nor will you have any Use for the former Discharges. But if you could put your Hand upon them, you may give them up.
1832 C. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas 25 [We] got into her, with such articles as we could immediately put our hands on.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. viii. 111 Perhaps..we can put our hand, as it were, on a time in our childhood [when, etc.].
1931 Publishers' Weekly 5 Dec. 2471/2 The ‘Brooklyn Eagle’..complains bitterly about distribution: ‘About seven hundred readers have written in..asking where they can put their hands on one.’
1972 L. Henderson Cage until Tame vii. 57 Right now he couldn't put his hands on a hundred quid.
1997 C. Carson Star Factory (1998) 178 I remember writing the quote on the blank side of a..requisition slip, but I cannot put my hand on it now.
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