What does man-handle mean?

man-handle

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

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"As the ends of the up and down platforms are not opposite each other, it is not possible to provide the ordinary type of barrow crossing, and the full churns were too heavy to be man-handled up and down the stairs of the footbridge."

man-handles (present, singular) man-handling (participle, present) man-handled (participle, past) man-handled (past)

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