double-handed

See also: doublehanded

English

Alternative forms

doublehanded

Adjective

double-handed (not comparable)

Involving both hands.
- 2002, Lilli Ahrendt, Mathilde Kohl, Baby Swimming, →ISBN, page 116:
  With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.
Designed to be used with two hands.
- 2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, →ISBN:
  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.
Involving two people.
- 2010, Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, →ISBN:
  The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.
Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
- 2003 June, “Economic Outlook”, in OECD Economic Outlook, number 1, number 73, →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.
- 2010, Gary Willis, The Key Issues Concerning Contemporary Art, →ISBN:
  Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.
deceitful; deceptive
- 1835, Alphonse de Lamartine, A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land:
  Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.
- 2010, Sukanya Banerjee, Becoming Imperial Citizens, →ISBN, page 131:
  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.

Derived terms

Adverb

double-handed (not comparable)

With two hands.
- 2015, Nick Oldham, Edge: A Henry Christie thriller, →ISBN:
  Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.

Verb

double-handed

simple past and past participle of double-hand
- 2015, Becky Masterman, Fear the Darkness, →ISBN:
  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.