brokenhandedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

brokenhanded (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of broken-handed
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 21:18-20:

     For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
     Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
     Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

   • 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems (Alphonso of Castile):

     Mighty projects countermanded ; Rash ambition, brokenhanded ; Puny man and scentless rose Tormenting Pan to double the dose.

   • 1917, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, World Outlook - Volume 3, page 24:

     I noticed a quarrel between an old brokenhanded baboon and a young dude with fine fur.

語源

broken +‎ handed

形容詞

broken-handed (not comparable)

1. Having a hand that is broken.
   • 1916, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Volume 65:

     If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed;

   • 2011, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1:

     The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon.

   • 2014, Don Pendleton, Cold War Reprise, ISBN 1488780781:

     The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard.

2. Performed using a broken hand.
   • 2011, P. T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory: A Novel, ISBN 1429968036, page 15:

     He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees.