one-handed
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one-handed
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From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ānhende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).
adjective onehanded
- Having only one hand. And who said the one-handed guy couldn't be self-sufficient? Certainly not his physical therapist, Gus, who led him to believe he'd be as good as new with a spaceage prosthesis and a crapload of physical and occupational therapy.
- Performed using only one hand. A one-handed save by Wojciech Szczesny prevented Darren Pratley giving Bolton an early lead and Arsenal looked short of ideas in a goalless first half.
- Designed for use with one hand The hoplites were pezetæri, the sarissa-armed, and hypaspists, a more select body, aimed with one-handed pike, sword and shield.
- Pornographic in nature. ... Boys sexual content mostly consists of a series of violent and less than titillating homosexual assaults. Word of mouth among the one-handed readership would not have been good.
- That uses one hand. The one-handed shooter, the target man who fires the national match course, turns about 45 degrees from the target, separates his feet about the same distance, fully extends his hand, locking the elbow, and with head and body erect looks over the sights.
- Involving the actions of only one person. I don't think she knew what a relief that was, because I would have been poor help for Ralph as a one-handed crew.
- Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation. Because of the m-phenylene linkage along the polymer main chain, the inherent propensity to generate foldamers has been explored in several ways, and the induction of one-handed polymer helicity been achieved.
adverb onehanded
- Using only one hand; one-handedly. She waved to us and lost her balance; riding a bicycle one-handed is tricky.
- While masturbating. The kind of story that you just know was written one-handed
- Very easily, without effort. He's a terrible snooker player. I could beat him one-handed!
noun one-handeds · onehanded
- A one-handed weapon. : 1) A 2H weapon does more damage than a 1H one. (Right... ?) Quarterstaffs don't;otherwise,two-handed weapons are generally somewhat deadlier than one-handeds;plus you save the weight of the shield - i avoid being burdened by any means.
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Talk about this word "one-handed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/one-handed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. one-handed. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/one-handed "one-handed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/one-handed.Cite this
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title = {one-handed},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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