Meaning

Involving both hands..

Definitions by Sense

1. Involving both hands.
2. Designed to be used with two hands.
3. Involving two people.
4. Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
5. deceitful; deceptive
6. With two hands.
7. simple past and past participle of double-hand

Example Sentences

With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.

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.

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

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.

Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.

Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.

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.

Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.

Word Forms

• doublehanded

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When Should You Use Double-handed?

Use double-handed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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