"grass hand" meaning in All languages combined

See grass hand on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: grass hands [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grass hand (plural grass hands)
  1. (printing, archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Printing
    Sense id: en-grass_hand-en-noun-DbRxq6tk Topics: media, printing, publishing
  2. (dated) Grass script; caoshu. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Calligraphy
    Sense id: en-grass_hand-en-noun-J8cOpYnO Disambiguation of Calligraphy: 33 67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 66

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grass hands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "grass hand (plural grass hands)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Printing",
          "orig": "en:Printing",
          "parents": [
            "Industries",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press:",
          "text": "Some strong criticism was expressed at the present practice of taking on grass hands, and the inconvenience and unpleasantness resulting from it in various foundries.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Printing Review (page 112)",
          "text": "A dispute has arisen on the \"Referee\" owing to some men holding full frames working as grass hands on Saturday afternoons."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An additional worker taken on at busy times."
      ],
      "id": "en-grass_hand-en-noun-DbRxq6tk",
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "additional",
          "additional"
        ],
        [
          "worker",
          "worker"
        ],
        [
          "busy",
          "busy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing, archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Calligraphy",
          "orig": "en:Calligraphy",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Writing",
            "Culture",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Society",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Grass script; caoshu."
      ],
      "id": "en-grass_hand-en-noun-J8cOpYnO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Grass script",
          "grass script"
        ],
        [
          "caoshu",
          "caoshu"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) Grass script; caoshu."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grass hand"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Calligraphy"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grass hands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "grass hand (plural grass hands)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Printing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press:",
          "text": "Some strong criticism was expressed at the present practice of taking on grass hands, and the inconvenience and unpleasantness resulting from it in various foundries.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Printing Review (page 112)",
          "text": "A dispute has arisen on the \"Referee\" owing to some men holding full frames working as grass hands on Saturday afternoons."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An additional worker taken on at busy times."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "additional",
          "additional"
        ],
        [
          "worker",
          "worker"
        ],
        [
          "busy",
          "busy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing, archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Grass script; caoshu."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Grass script",
          "grass script"
        ],
        [
          "caoshu",
          "caoshu"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) Grass script; caoshu."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grass hand"
}

Download raw JSONL data for grass hand meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.