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afterhand

adj

Etymology

From after + hand.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. compounded as afterhand — “after + hand”

Definitions

  1. Paid afterwards, rather than in advance.

    • an afterhand rent

  2. Afterwards

    Afterwards; subsequently.

    • To be sure, ye ken best, " said the writer; “ hut, after a', now, wad it no be better to lay by this hundred pound in Tam Turnpenny's, in case the young lady should want it afterhand, just for a sair foot?“
    • Deduction is knowledge beforehand ; induction is knowledge afterhand.
    • If necessary it would afterhand always be possible to integrate over larger time intervals.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afterhand. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA