| Summary: | cross-handed av 'CROSSHANDED' AND 'SAD' In Newfoundland when a man rows alone he rows cross-handed. From this probably comes the custom in that region of calling anything done alone _crosshanded_. Crosshanded has come to mean alone: 'I'm going down town crosshanded,' 'I went to the dance cross handed.' [check] [2nd item is a New Brunswick term] Above invaluable item is for your Dictionary file. June 19/71 [reverse] Harold Wilson was at Nebraska (student or professor unknown). Recall that Louise Pound, so influential within American speech, was also at Nebraska, and would have encouraged dialect submissions. The Bathurst, N.B. sense was exceedingly: a sad good truck. Conclusion: Wilson may have traveled in N.B. and Nfld. His examples don't sound like quotations from Nfld printed sources. WK 24 Apr 2006 PUBLISHED SOURCE SET_ _ _ _ Prob. copies some source. WK -> Used I and Sup Used I 3 Not Used fish cross-handed, go ~, cross-handed dory, DORY, cross-hand(ed) skiff, SKIFF Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 28 Jun 2016, reverse side of C_16413
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