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Behad vs Behand - What's the difference?

behad | behand |

As an adjective behad

is beholden; indebted.

As a verb behand is

to remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands.

behad

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Beholden; indebted.

    • behand

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands.
  • *1909 , Theodore L. Flood, The Chautauquan - Volumes 53-54 - Page 55 :
    • Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace. A person sentenced to be "behanded " might by law commute the punishment by paying a certain sum, and presenting a bronze hand marked with the name, crime, etc.
  • *2004 , Susan C. Power, Early Art of the Southeastern Indians :
    • The pit burial in a Cahokia mound of four beheaded and behanded men "could easily be personifications of the four beheaded, sacred ears of corn in a similar ritual" (Brose and Greber 1979, 264).