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单词 to come to handstrokes
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to 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.
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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.
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