ˈhand-wrist Obs. exc. dial.
[OE. hand-wrist, -wyrst, f. hand + wrist, wyrst, OFris. wriust wrist, and instep, Ger. rist instep.]
1. The wrist or joint of the hand. Now dial.
| a 1000 Ags. Gloss in Wr.-Wülcker 216/24 Cuba, i. ulna, elnboga, uel hondwyrst. c 1050 Ibid. 356/20 Articulus, handwyrst. c 1325 Gloss W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 147 Le cou de la meyn, the hand wriste. 1560 Frampton in Strype Ann. Ref. I. xx. 244 The blood sprang out at my hand-wrists, where I was tied. 1650 Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Carlyle, Colonel Whalley only cut in the handwrist. 1809 Parkins Culpepper's Eng. Physic. Enl. 212 Bruised and applied to the soles of the feet and hand-wrists. [In Somersetsh., Wiltsh., and Glouces. Dialects.] |
† 2. A cuff. Obs. rare.
| 1707 J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 229 Ruffles and Hand-wrists, to appear in sight, and represent Shirt-Sleeves. |