wieldsome

comparative more wieldsome · superlative most wieldsome

1. archaicCharacterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.

   The wieldsome agencies are, again, two-fold. Those that are authorative and of the government, mandatory; the others in part or altogether voluntary are more directory than mandatory.

   1902, The State of Corrections: Proceedings, ACA Annual Conferences

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   […] Cesar […] commaunded that the Galleyes wherof the facion was more straunge to the sauage Britons, and the mouing more redy and wieldsome, should be remoued a lyttell from the shyps of Burthen […]

   1565, Arthur Golding, transl., The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia, London: William Seres, Book Four, p. 99b

   Synonyms: wieldy, manageable · Antonyms: unwieldsome