| 单词 | wide on the bow-hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmas†wide on the bow-hand 1. The hand which holds the bow in archery, i.e. the left hand. Hence, †wide on the bow-hand: wide of the mark, ‘out’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > left hand winstereOE left handc1275 bridle hand?1561 bow-hand1598 buckler-hand1676 rein hand1738 sinister1770 southpaw1813 ciotóg1832 shield-hand1891 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 132 Wide a the bow hand, yfaith your hand is out. View more context for this quotation a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 39 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) He shootes wyde on the Bow hand, & very far from the marke. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 534 Atrides' dart of Helenus the thrust out bow-hand struck. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn2/1 I am much o' the bow hand else. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 89 You are on the bow-hand still, Smith. 1871 R. Browning Balaustion 26 Thou must arm The bow-hand. < as lemmas |
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