一切經音義 17.67

17.67

無秉作（兵永反毛詩傳云秉操也亦把也賈注國語秉執也廣雅云持也說文從又從禾會意字也手持一禾曰秉）。

Having nothing to hold (無秉作; [the second character is pronounced with the] fanqie bīng + [y]ǒng. The commentary to the Mao Poetry says: “Bǐng means to manipulate; it also means to grasp.” Jia's commentary to the Guoyu says: “Bǐng means to take hold of.” The Guangya says: “It means to hold.” The Shuowen says: “It takes yòu ‘hand’ and hé ‘grain’ as semantic components; it is an associative compound character. The hand holding a single stalk of grain is called bǐng”).