double-handed

alternative doublehanded

1. not comparableInvolving 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 comparableDesigned 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 comparableInvolving two people.

   The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.

   2010, Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, →ISBN

4. not comparableServing 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

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   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 comparabledeceitful; deceptive

   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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   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

alternative doublehanded

1. not comparableWith 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

alternative doublehanded

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle 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