nearhand

comparative more nearhand · superlative most nearhand

1. Nearby; close at hand; nigh; adjacent.

   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

   1894, Royal Commission on Agriculture, “Minutes of evidence taken before Her Majesty's commissioners”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 1-2, page 527

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   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.

   1902, Francis Lynde, The master of Appleby, page 518

   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

   1921, United States naval medical bulletin, volume 15, page 320

1. dialectalnot comparableNearly.
2. dialectalnot comparableNearby; near at hand.

1. dialectalNearby.

   You'll be always nearhand us in Tierneys' mill.

   1926, Catholic World, volume 123, page 199

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   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 [...].

   1862, Margaret Maitland, Passages in the Life of, page 247

   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

   1904, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command, volume 42, page 32