doublehanded

Meanings

adjectivedoublehanded (not comparable)

not comparablenauticalRequiring or using a crew consisting of two people.
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.
2006, Beth Leonard, The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, →ISBN
alternativenot comparableAlternative form of double-handed.
It is this doublehanded judgement that Personal Services seeks to expose.
1987, Women's Review - Issues 14-21
3 more examples
When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs.
1999, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American
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.
1829, Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein
It is with this ambiguity in mind that one can begin a serious deconstructive, or doublehanded, reading of Levinas's work.
2014, Simon Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, →ISBN, page 16

adverbdoublehanded (not comparable)

not comparableWith two hands.
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.
2010, Stephen Dando-Collins, Legions of Rome: The definitive history of every Roman legion, →ISBN

verb

participlepastsimple past and past participle of doublehand
The boat, Rain Drop, was being doublehanded by a couple of past Cal 20 sailors.
2010, Robert & Jeanne Crawford, Black Feathers, →ISBN, page 34

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