单词 | to come to handstrokes |
释义 | > as lemmasto come to handstrokes 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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