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- English Word Handle Definition To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
- English Word Handle Definition To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
- English Word Handle Definition To deal with; to make a business of.
- English Word Handle Definition To treat; to use, well or ill.
- English Word Handle Definition To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
- English Word Handle Definition To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
- English Word Handle Definition To use the hands.
- English Word Handle Definition That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
- English Word Handle Definition That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
- English Word Handleable Definition Capable of being handled.
- English Word Handled Definition of Handle
- English Word Handless Definition Without a hand.
- English Word Handling Definition of Handle
- English Word Handling Definition A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.
- English Word Handling Definition The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.
- English Word Handmade Definition Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.
- English Word Handmaid Definition Alt. of Handmaiden
- English Word Handmaiden Definition A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
- English Word Handsaw Definition A saw used with one hand.
- English Word Handsel Definition A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.