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Handed
·adj With hands joined; hand in hand.
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Double
·adv Twice; doubly.
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double
To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt.
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Fast-handed
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
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Free-handed
·adj Open-handed; liberal.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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High-handed
·adj Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
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Horny-handed
·adj Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
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Large-handed
·adj Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
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Left-handed
·adj Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
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Light-handed
·adj Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
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Lily-handed
·adj Having white, delicate hands.
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Open-handed
·adj Generous; liberal; munificent.
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Red-handed
(·adj / ·adv) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands;
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Right-handed
·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Single-handed
·adj Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
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Sinister-handed
·adj Left-handed; hence, unlucky.
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Strait-handed
·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
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Three-handed
·adj Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, ...
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Two-handed
·adj Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword.
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Wing-handed
·adj Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
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Left-handed
(Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; an...
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caw-handed, or caw-pawed
Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble.
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two-handed
Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
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fore-handed
To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...
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cooche-handed
left-handed. Devon.
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light-handed
Short of the complement of men.
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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Double dealer
·- One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
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Double dealing
·- False or deceitful dealing. ·see Double dealing, under <<Dealing>>.
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Double first
·- A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
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Double pedro
·add. ·- Cinch (the game).
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Double-acting
·adj Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a d...
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Double-bank
·vt To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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Double-banked
·adj Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being ...
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Double-barreled
·adj ·Alt. of Double-barrelled.
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Double-barrelled
·adj Having two barrels;
— applied to a gun.
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Double-breasted
·adj Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, ...
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Double-charge
·vt To <<Overcharge>>.
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Double-decker
·noun A man-of-war having two gun decks.
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Double-dye
·vt To dye again or twice over.
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Double-dyed
·adj Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a d...
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Double-ender
·noun A locomotive with pilot at each end.
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Double-entendre
·noun A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or in...
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Double-eyed
·adj Having a deceitful look.
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Double-faced
·adj Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Double-hung
·adj Having both sashes hung with weights and cords;
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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Double-milled
·adj Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine;
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Double-quick
·noun Double-quick time, step, or march.
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Double-ripper
·noun A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the othe...
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Double-shade
·vt To double the natural darkness of (a place).
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Double-surfaced
·add. ·adj Having two surfaces;
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Double-tongue
·noun Deceit; duplicity.
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Double-tongued
·adj Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
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Double-tonguing
·noun A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rap...
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double jug
A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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double-banked
When two opposite oars are pulled by rowers seated on the same thwart; or when there are two men lab...
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double-bitted
Two turns of the cable round the bitts instead of one.
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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double-breeching
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
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double-capstan
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
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double-crown
A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and orna...
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double dutch coiled against the sun
Gibberish, or any unintelligible or difficult language.
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double eagle
A gold coin of the United States, of 10 dollars; value £2, 1 s. 8 d., at the average rate of exchang...
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double-futtocks
Timbers in the cant-bodies, extending from the dead-wood to the run of the second futtock-head.
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double insurance
Where the insured makes two insurances on the same risks and the same interest.
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double-ironed
Both legs shackled to the bilboe-bolts.
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
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double-sided
A line-of-battle ship painted so as to show the ports of both decks; or a vessel painted to resemble...
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double-star
Two stars so close together as to be separable only with a telescope. They are either optically so o...
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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star, double
See double-star.
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left-handed wife
A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...
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two handed put
The amorous congress.
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two-handed fellows
Those who are both seamen and soldiers, or artificers; as the marines and, specially, marine artille...
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two-handed saw
A very useful instrument in ship-carpentry; it is much longer than the hand-saw, and requires two me...
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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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Double Hand Court
See Double Hood Court.
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Double Hood Court
North out of Upper Thames Street by Campion Lane in Dowgate Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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double-acting engine
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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double deck-nails
See deck-nails.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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double-image micrometer
Has one of its lenses divided, and separable to a certain distance by a screw, which at the same tim...
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double upon, to
See doubling upon.
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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...
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physical double-star
See double-star and binary system.
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double cocoa-nut
See sea cocoa-nut
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East Smithfield Double Passage
On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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work double-tides, to
Implying that the work of three days is done in two, or at least two tides' work in twenty-four hour...
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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