| 单词 | car-handed |
| 释义 | > as lemmascar-handed Left, esp. in car-hand, car-handed; (also) left-handed. Sometimes with implication of awkwardness or wrongness (cf. sinister adj.). Also occasionally (e.g. in quot. c1440) as n.: †the left hand (obsolete).Recorded earliest in a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side > left winstereOE lefta1200 car1279 wrong?a1400 left hand1440 sinister1483 sinistral1534 left-hand side1581 nar1607 sinistrous1646 nigh1722 left-handed1757 larboard1781 leftward1791 sinistrine1792 left-sided1801 toward1866 1279 in W. Page Three Early Assize Rolls Northumberland (1891) 235 (MED) Thom. Kerhand. 1327 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 70 Henrico dicto kerhand. c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) l. 613 (MED) With a caste of þe care [c1475 Ireland the carhonde], in kautelle he strykes. a1500 Wisdom of Solomon (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 189 The visdome of the wisman is in his rycht hand and the foly of the ful in his kere hand. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 90 He resauit the vryting in his kar hand. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Hebdomas Vpon the ker and wrang side, was placed the thrid Idole, Frigga. 1600 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1884) 1st Ser. VI. 94 [They] mutilat him in the ker hand of tua fingeris. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 380 You'll go the Car Gate yet. 1743 Scots Mag. Nov. 524 It has a meikle maun blue pouch hingin' at the carr side o'd, fou o' mullens and chucky-stanes. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Car-hand, the left hand. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) If you meet a car-handit, i.e. a left-handed person, or one who has flat soles. 1895 ‘G. Setoun’ Sunshine & Haar v. 72 Pillan's compliments..is a' car-pawed. 1928 J. Carruthers Man Beset 101 He's aye glaikin' wi' weemen, but naebody can say he's ker-handit wi' a coo. 1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. Car, left-handed. 2005 M. Rodger Borth'ick Waitter (SCOTS) On yer ker haund, is ee gan doon the hill end yonner, is ae wheen auld treis up on the brae face. < as lemmas |
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