Talk:handle

Same etymology?

Surely the noun and verb senses are the same etymology.... the verb just has more detail? Maybe it needs less detail? How's it go into Icelandic??

Verb senses

check out http://www.answers.com/handle&r=67 everybody. we need to ocver the verb handle here. it's kinda important. I can't believe how much work wiktionary needs sometimes. LingLangLung 02:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Entry criticized

Entry depicted as an example of disadvantages of unprofessional, user-generated dictionaries here (page 16). 195.249.127.231 13:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Additional sense

Century has the sense "8. [< handle, n.] To furnish with a handle or handles; as, to handle a teacup." So far, the only citations I can find are:

• 1917, Leona Dalrymple, Kenny, page 226:

  "A man who wants to know if you must have a north light to paint by will think it a rule of the guild to double-handle teacups."

• 1971, Ceramics (volumes 22-23 / issues 263-274), page 8:

  After the raw materials have been finely ground and blunged the resulting clay bodies are stored in 15 tanks [...]. The automatic ramikin machine, which can also make and handle cups, and the plate dryer are by Netzsch.

- -sche (discuss) 00:01, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Maybe a type of beer glass

Heard in the pub last night: "can I have mine in a handle?". The customer wanted one of the old-fashioned glass tankards with "dimples" and a handle on the side, as opposed to the modern pint glass with no handle. Equinox ◑ 09:10, 20 December 2022 (UTC)