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double-handed en · ADJ

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1. (not-comparable) Involving both hands.
   • With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely. 2002, Lilli Ahrendt, Mathilde Kohl, Baby Swimming, →ISBN, page 116:
2. (not-comparable) Designed to be used with two hands.
   • Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod. 2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, →ISBN:
3. (not-comparable) Involving two people.
   • The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act. 2010, Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, →ISBN:
4. (not-comparable) Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
   • Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment. 2010, Gary Willis, The Key Issues Concerning Contemporary Art, →ISBN:
   • A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence. 2003 June, “Economic Outlook”, in OECD Economic Outlook, number 1, number 73, →ISBN:
5. (not-comparable) deceitful; deceptive
   • While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship. 2010, Sukanya Banerjee, Becoming Imperial Citizens, →ISBN, page 131:
   • Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power. 1835, Alphonse de Lamartine, A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land:

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double-handedness · double-handedly

double-handed en · ADV

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1. (not-comparable) With two hands.
   • Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage. 2015, Nick Oldham, Edge: A Henry Christie thriller, →ISBN:

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es a manteniente (disused) (Translations)

double-handed en · VERB

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1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of double-hand
   form of double-hand
   • I could see it the first time I met her, the way she peered at Carlo, whom she had just met. and at the gala the other night, the way she fell into Adrian Franklin and then double-handed his hand when he helped her up. 2015, Becky Masterman, Fear the Darkness, →ISBN:

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