doublehanded
See also: double-handed
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editdoublehanded (not comparable)
- (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.
- 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
editdoublehanded (not comparable)
- 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
editdoublehanded
- 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.