uphand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From up- + hand.
Senses: examples: the uphand sledge
glosses: Designed to be lifted by the hand, or by both hands
examples: text: Girzie, when in her barleyhoods, was apt to enforce her commands with uphand emphases, and Andrew came in for a due share of this practical elocution, and always proved himself as quiet and submissive a disciple as ever fell under a "continual dropping," since the days of the man of Uz.
ref: 1835, John Donald Carrick, The Laird of Logan; Or, Wit of the West:
text: There was not anything like it either for extraordinary rapidity of pace with the uphand bowling, or accuracy of length and general steadiness.
ref: 1846, Cricket. Sketches of the players, page 3:
text: I called, as soon as the struggle was over, for Poor Tom, but for a long time nothing could be seen of him or his raven; at last a call from John Lee, who, like myself, was unhurt, told me he was found, and close outside the hovel where the women and children who had been carried off by the moor men had been shut up, and who we happily rescued, Poor Tom lay locked close in the arms of a moor man, through whose heart he had driven the Spanish knife, and who had ripped him open by one uphand cut, from the bottom of his belly to the top of his chest.
ref: 1888, The history of Arthur Penreath, page 162:
text: They sparred heavily for nearly ten minutes, neither gaining the advantage until Kathleen, with one furious uphand stroke, snapped Reed's blade in two near the hilt.
ref: 2002, Catherine Hart, Fire and Ice, →ISBN, page 359:
glosses: With an upward movement of the hand.
examples: text: Downhand welding is preferable to uphand welding as it insures better fusion and greater speed.
ref: 1932, Railway Engineering and Maintenance - Volume 27, page 43:
text: In uphand welding, the previously deposited metal is used as a step to hold up the molten metal, making possible a heavier deposit. Slag flows away from the molten pool and is less likely to be trapped in the metal during uphand welding.
ref: 1967, W. J. Patton, The science and practice of welding, page 29:
text: When welding thick pipe, the weld may be formed from the bottom up by uphand welding.
ref: 2008, Andrew Clennel Palmer, Roger A. King, Subsea Pipeline Engineering, →ISBN, page 131:
qualifier: welding
glosses: Starting from the bottom and working upwards
examples: text: A man to roll rubber off from that, I think, would find rather an uphand business — pushing his hands against the rubber.
ref: 1855, United States Circuit Court (Rhode Island), Horace H. Day vs. Isaac Hartshorn, et al:
text: What is desirable is to imitate the calf in sucking; the hand is to be not only sharply closed against the teat, but vigorous uphand pressure against the udder is to be made at the same time.
ref: 1917, Thomas Forsyth Hunt, Charles William Burkett, Farm Animals: Covering the General Field of Animal Industry, page 407:
glosses: Characterized by pushing upwards with a hand or hands.
examples: text: My land is uphand black loam, which I value at fifty dollars per acre, and three crops is the most I have grown consecutively on the same ground.
ref: 1905, Quarterly Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, volume 19:
text: Intercropping with cowpea exerted an uphand influence on the soil available N (223 and 236 kg/ha) considerable, build up in the soil available N was noticed with the sorghum + cowpea intercropping system in a ratio of 3:1 which is probably due to the beneficial effect of continuous legume intercropping.
ref: 2004, Arvind Kumar, Environment and Health, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Enriched; fertile.
raw_tags: of soil