doublehanded

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

double +‎ handed

Adjective[edit]

doublehanded (not comparable)

  1. (sailing) Requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.
    • 2006, Beth Leonard, The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, →ISBN:
      This section uses a survey of thirteen couples to look at typical shorthanded solutions to watchkeeping and then discusses some standard watch schedules for doublehanded crews.
  2. Alternative form of double-handed
    • 1999, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American:
      When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs.
    • 1829, Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:
      Of the ancient doublehanded espadons of the Switzer, I have, in this way, received, I think, not less than six, in excellent preservation, from as many different individuals, who thus testified their general approbation of these pages.
    • 1987, Women's Review - Issues 14-21:
      It is this doublehanded judgement that Personal Services seeks to expose.
    • 2014, Simon Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, →ISBN, page 16:
      It is with this ambiguity in mind that one can begin a serious deconstructive, or doublehanded, reading of Levinas's work.

Adverb[edit]

doublehanded (not comparable)

  1. With two hands.
    • 2010, Stephen Dando-Collins, Legions of Rome: The definitive history of every Roman legion, →ISBN:
      For maximum destructive effect, the user crashed his falx down on to the target doublehanded, then drew the blade back toward himself in a sawing motion.

Verb[edit]

doublehanded

  1. simple past and past participle of doublehand
    • 2010, Robert & Jeanne Crawford, Black Feathers, →ISBN, page 34:
      The boat, Rain Drop, was being doublehanded by a couple of past Cal 20 sailors.