cross amputation

[Barnhart]

An entry in The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 5.3-4; c. 1989)
provides the form _cross-amputation_.  The e.q. (earliest quote) is 1984.
However, since then I've found the following:

An Omdurman court found Al-Wathig Sabah Al-Khair guilty of three counts of
armed robbery, punishable according to Islamic law by death, crucifixion,
or cross amputation of hands and feet.  "Thief to be executed then
crucified," _Daily Gleaner_ [Kingston, Jamaica] (NewspaperArchive.com),
June 15, 1984, p 9

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Monday, March 14,
2005 at 10:40 AM  wrote:


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>from the NYT Week in Review, 3/13/05, "Shariah's Reach", p. 4:
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>Iran.  2002.  At least three were reported sentenced to death by
>stoning.  Amnesty International recorded 9 amputations as punishments,
>including one cross amputation (for example, a right hand and left
>foot).
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>not in OED Online or our archives.  about 1,400 Google web hits, a
>number of them with "cross amputation" in quotation marks, indicating
>that the writer didn't expect readers to be familiar with the term.
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>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
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