| 单词 | round hand |
| 释义 | ˈround hand
[f. round a. + hand n.]
1. A style of handwriting in which the letters are round, bold, and full.
1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1732/4 The Bastard Italians (commonly) called the new A-la-mode Round-hands, with Round-mixt Running-hands, and mixt Secretaries. 1686W. Elder (title) in Arber Term Catal. II. 158/1 A Book of Copies for Learners of Round-hand. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 302 The common Round-hand, various Law-hands, and various Short-hands. 1766Serle Art Writing 3 Round Hand... In writing this Hand, let the Slope be inclining to your Right Hand. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair i, The orphan, little Laura Martin (who was just in round-hand). 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 436 A word written in the ‘round hand’ of the copy books.
attrib. and transf.1766Serle Art Writing 61 The capital Round Hand Letters. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury xxiv, ‘Time flies quickly,’ as we learn from the roundhand copies. 1888Pater Apprec. (1890) 2 Something very tamely..confined to mainly practical ends—a kind of ‘good round hand’.
2. attrib. Of bowling: Performed with a horizontal swing of the hand or arm; round-arm.
1851Lillywhite Guide Crick. 14 Mr. Willes..first introduced round-hand bowling, and Lambart first practised it.. forty years ago. 1884Harper's Mag. Jan. 299/2 Oh, for..the round-hand bowling of our fathers' day!
So ˈround-hander, a ‘round-arm’ blow.
1892W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy 169 He planted a round-hander on the Sergeant's left ear. |
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