cross-handed

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Done with hands or forearms crossed over each other. not-comparable
    — The cross-handed grip helps in maintaining the wrist position.
  2. Done by crossing the hand to the other side of the body. not-comparable
    — I wonder how it would be to stand right in the beginning of the fast water, at the lip of the pool, and try a cross-handed cast.
  3. Involving two opposing directions. not-comparable
    — Appreciable scattering of cross-handed radiation occurred in the middle of the band, leaving regions near the long- and short-wavelength band edges in which scattering of cross-handed radiation was negligible.
  4. Back-handed. not-comparable,obsolete
    — We believe and are thoroughly convinced that God's blessings come to his church in a cross-handed way, entirely different, in many instances, from the way we expect them.
副词 adv.
  1. With hands or forearms crossed over each other. not-comparable
    — Both Arnold Palmer and Gary Player have been quoted as saying that if they could change one thing about their games, they would have putted cross-handed early in their career.
  2. While crossing the hand to the other side of the body. not-comparable
    — Joe got them to rig him a holster so he could draw the .45 cross-handed.
  3. In two opposing directions. not-comparable
    — The merchant fishermen at the falls acted as middlemen or factors, and passed the objects of traffic, as it were, cross-handed; trading away part of the wares received from the mountain tribes to those of the rivers and plains, and vice versa: […]
  4. Facing forward and pushing the oars away from the body on the power stroke (rather than facing backward and pulling the oars on the power stroke). not-comparable
    — Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf.
  5. Idly. not-comparable
    — Why do we sit cross-handed and do nothing which would serve as a basis upon which to build the salvation of our people?
  6. Back-handedly. not-comparable,obsolete
    — ..the end has been answered, though the channel of conveyance has been in direct opposition to what I wanted or expected, like as Jacob in blessing Joseph's sons, he wittingly—ah it is wittingly indeed, we are blessed; namely, cross-handed.

词形变化

crosshanded alternative crosshanded alternative

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From cross + handed.
词源 2
From cross + handed.
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