man-handle

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man-handle (third-person singular simple present man-handles, present participle man-handling, simple past and past participle man-handled)

  1. Alternative form of manhandle.
    • 1951 October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Milk Platform at Beccles”, in Railway Magazine, page 717:
      As the ends of the up and down platforms are not opposite each other, it is not possible to provide the ordinary type of barrow crossing, and the full churns were too heavy to be man-handled up and down the stairs of the footbridge.