man-handle

A form of manhandle — To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.

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Meanings

verbman-handle (third-person singular simple present man-handles, present participle man-handling, simple past and past participle man-handled)

present singular third person man-handles · participle present man-handling · participle past man-handled · past man-handled

  1. alternativeAlternative form of manhandle.

    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.

    1951 October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Milk Platform at Beccles”, in Railway Magazine, page 717
Cite this entry
APA

man-handle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/man-handle

MLA

“man-handle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/man-handle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “man-handle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/man-handle.

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