| 单词 |
one-handed |
| 释义 |
ˈone-ˌhanded, a.
A. adj.
1. Having only one hand, or only one hand capable of use.
c1440Promp. Parv. 365/2 Oon handyd, mancus. 1530Palsgr. 320/2 Onehanded, manquet. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John 75, I haue restored the one handed to both.
2. Used, worked, or performed with one hand.
1611Cotgr., Aisceau,..a one-handed plane-axe. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 283/1 The one-handed [deaf-mute] alphabet was invented in Spain. 1894Field 9 June 838/2 Mr. J. was..defeated by a one-handed catch in the slips after making thirty.
B. as adv. Using only one hand.
1962J. D. MacDonald Girl ix. 113 You can do it okay one-handed, just push down with your thumb. 1963Times 12 June 5/2 He was caught at long on, finishing his stroke one-handed. 1974R. Adams Shardik v. 43 He crouched upon his knees, fumbling one-handed along the undulating tree-trunk. 1975J. Mitchell Smear Job v. 37 Lonely drank one-handed.
Hence one-ˈhandedly adv., with one hand; one-ˈhandedness, the state of being one-handed; (by back-formation) one-ˈhand v. trans.
1972J. Rossiter Rope for General Dietz xiii. 185, I lit a cigarette one-handedly. 1973R. Stout Please pass Guilt (1974) iv. 32 Jones stretched an arm and one-handed it [sc. the ball], and kept it. 1975Times 12 Feb. 4/3 In spite of her one-handedness, [she] had followed hobbies of gardening, paper hanging, tennis. 1977S. Coulter Soyuz Affair i. 9 He..onehandedly fingered a cigarette out of the packet. |
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