nearhand
/ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
adv
prep
Example Sentences
- "We are nearer hand to the great coal districts, and there is a tendency for the men to go there. We are nearer hand to the great mining centres than are those that Mr. Scott represented"
- "But whether, when he should break his camp at Forney's plantation, he would go northward after Morgan and the prisoners, or cross the river at some nearhand ford to chase our main, none of our scouts could tell us."
- "The person discovering the fire will immediately endeavor to extinguish it by the use of the nearest means at hand, such as suffocation by blankets or other material, use of w7ater, or the nearest hand fire extinguisher or pyrene outfit"
- "And when I was nearhand the house, I met Menie, her daughter, and she told me that they had heard word from Sandy that morning [...]."
- "but I will tell you that some of my coopers went into the fishing station and vomited, owing to the smell from the whales, and they declared to me when they came back that it was the last time they would go nearhand them"
- "You'll be always nearhand us in Tierneys' mill."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: nerhand, nerehand
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/
Inflected Forms
more nearhand (comparative)
most nearhand (superlative)