Handlesome
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Handlesome is an adjective meaning (rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage.
Meaning
(rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage.
Example Sentences
"[…] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack, Dog hounds is none so handlesome […]
She said: "So I sure got my hands full." Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.
River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include handleable, handlable, maniable, wieldsome, well-handled, wieldy.
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