doublehanded
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.
adj
adv
With two hands.
verb
simple past and past participle of doublehand
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs."
- "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."
- "It is this doublehanded judgement that Personal Services seeks to expose."
- "It is with this ambiguity in mind that one can begin a serious deconstructive, or doublehanded, reading of Levinas's work."
- "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."