Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
April 30, 2025
Search: WORK
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL |
| 853 | Higgins (1923) | WORK | WORK | WORK: Wrist of right struck several times on the back of left closed prone hand, right "S" vertical and palm leftward. | 150 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=853&refid=higgins1923 |
| 349 | Long (1918) | FAIL | FAIL, TO HAVE ONE'S WORK FAIL (1) | FAIL, TO HAVE ONE'S WORK FAIL: Hold open hands upon a level with the chin one above the other; let them fall, rolling over each other in the descent. XIII,169. | 48 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=349&refid=long1918 |
| 377 | Long (1918) | WORK | WORK | WORK: Throw right "A" hand down against left "A" hand two or three times so that the lower side of right wrist strikes the top side of left wrist. (With both hands in position of "A" throw wrists together.) Same sign followed by "much" signifies "busy." VIII,182. | 51 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=377&refid=long1918 |
| 627 | Long (1918) | WORK~DO | BUSY | BUSY: Make the sign for work, i.e., strike the top of the left wrist with the under side of the right wrist, holding the hands in position of "S," and add sign of "action." | 73 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=627&refid=long1918 |
| 181 | Michaels (1923) | WORK~DO~COLLECT | EARN | EARN: 1. Strike the right wrist on the left wrist two or three times. 2. Sign "do." 3. Make a scoop-in movement with the palm of your right hand over and along the palm of your left hand. | 53 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=181&refid=michaels1923 |
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| Tag ID | Signer(Year) | Reference Gloss | Context | Segment | URL | |
| 52 | Cloud (1913) | WORK | N/A | 3P-SELF PASS-DOWN(rf) FANCY PEOPLE, RICH HAVE, LEARN WISE HAVE SOUL STRONG LOVE FEEL~PITY(2h) FOR(rf) PEOPLE, AND WITH EVERY++(linear) HOPE FOR(rf) GLORY SUCCEED IN ANY WORK WANT+, | 2 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=cloud&glossid=52 |
| 355 | Erd (1913) | WORK | N/A | COMING(-from-lt) NEGATIVE(up) AGAIN HERE WORLD FOR WORK DO(pitch) gs:NOTHING(pitch), COMING(-from-lt) NEGATIVE(up) AGAIN HERE WORLD FOR SUFFER~PAIN. | 36 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=erd&glossid=355 |
| 1006 | Gallaudet (1910) | WORK | N/A | 1P-IX TRY FIND WORK(rep3x,arc) PROGRESS FUTURE | 89 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=gallaudet&glossid=1006 |
| 21 | Regensburg (1913) | WORK | N/A | 3P-IX(rt) FAMOUS DEAF SCIENCE LEAD IN THAT(1h) WORK. | 2 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=regensburg&glossid=21 |