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single-handed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Without help from others; unassisted.
   • It worked through from Swindon with a test train of 16 coaches and the new W.R. dynamometer car, the whole totalling 571 tons; this is one of the heaviest trains ever worked by a single-handed locomotive over the South Devon banks—in fact, it was competently restarted from a test stop on Dainton bank. 1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 280:
2. (not-comparable) Using only one hand.
3. (not-comparable) Designed for only one hand.

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Deriveds

single-handedly · single-handedness

Translations (13)

cmn 独力 (without help from others; unassisted) · it in solitaria (without help from others; unassisted) · sh sȃm (without help from others; unassisted) · sv enmans- (without help from others; unassisted) · bg без чужда помощ (without help from others; unassisted) · gv un-laueagh (without help from others; unassisted) · ga dólámhach (without help from others; unassisted) · gv un-laueagh (using only one hand) · sh са̑м (without help from others; unassisted) · sv enhands- (using only one hand) · ota یالڭز (without help from others; unassisted) · cmn 獨力 /独力 (without help from others; unassisted) · bg с една ръка (using only one hand)

single-handed en · ADV

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) In a single-handed manner.
   • "Got those [sc. scars] with a broken bottle, arresting two toughs at once," he said, replacing his cap. "Run them in single-handed and had a set-to in the cell with them on top of it." 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:
   • I've been holding my family together single-handed.

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Synonyms

by oneself

Translations (4)

cmn 独力 (in a single-handed manner) · cmn 獨力 /独力 (in a single-handed manner) · sv på egen hand (in a single-handed manner) · sv egenhändigt (in a single-handed manner)

single-handed en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of single-hand
   form of single-hand

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