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Two-handed. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Two-handed (stress var.), a.

1   1.  Wielded with both hands, as a sword, etc. (= prec. 1); involving the use of both hands.

2 1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), VII. 243. Taileler … toke a too honded swerde, and … did slee oon of Ynglishe men.

3 1588.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 277. With hagbute, bow, speir, or twa-handit swerd.

4 1637.  Milton, Lycidas, 130. That two-handed engine … Stands ready to smite. Ibid. (1667), P. L., VI. 251. With huge two-handed sway Brandisht aloft the horrid edge came down.

5 1814.  Scott, Diary, 22 Aug., in Lockhart. The effigy of a warrior completely armed … with his hand on his two-handed broadsword.

6 1837.  Penny Cycl., VIII. 283/1. This was probably the finger-alphabet from which our present two-handed one was derived.

7 1874.  Swinburne, Bothwell, IV. ii. The sword Which was my grandsire’s, whose two-handed stroke Did such-like service.

8   2.  Wielded or worked by the hands of two persons, as a saw; engaged in or played by two persons, as a card-game, etc.: = prec. 2.

9 1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 41. Cutting it with two-handed Saws.

10 1680.  Cotton, Compl. Gamester, x. 83. Some play at two handed, or three handed whist.

11 1827.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 274. I’m real happy … to think that we’re to hae a twa-handed crack.

12 1853.  Sir H. Douglas, Milit. Bridges, vi. (ed. 3), 303. A plank … upon which … two men may stand to … work, conjointly, a heavy two-handed beetle.

13 1898.  To-Day, 5 Nov., 19/2. The Captain sat down to play two-handed poker with Chris.

14   3.  colloq. Big, bulky, strapping. ? Obs.

15 1687.  T. Brown, Saints in Uproar, Wks. 1730, I. 73. A huge two-handed lubber, St. Christopher I think they call him.

16 1692.  trans. C’tess D’Aunoy’s Trav., iii. (1706), 44. The Hair … being … kept behind their Ears with a great Twohanded [mistranslating Fr. doublé ‘lined’] Hat.

17 a. 1700.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Strapping-Lass, a swinging two-handed Woman.

18 1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, IX. iii. This Susan was as two-handed a wench (according to the phrase) as any in the country.

19 1830.  Lamb, Lett. to Wordsworth, 22 Jan. [Vulcan] the two-handed skinker.

20   4.  Having two hands.

21 1847.  Carpenter, Zool., 132. Bimana, or two-handed Mammals. Ibid., 137. Man alone is two-handed.

22   5.  Using both hands equally well, ambidextrous; dexterous, handy, efficient.

23 1861.  Whyte-Melville, Good for Nothing, xxvii. A mon soon learns to be two-handed in the bush.

24   Hence Two-handedness. So Two-hander, a two-handed sword; † Two-handy a. = sense 1.

25 1884.  Morning Appeal (Carson City, NV), 24 June, 2/1. President Garfield could write well with either hand. He had practiced two-handedness from boyhood.

26 1891.  Home Missionary (N. Y.), Jan., 389. A holy *two-handedness.

27 1888.  Archæologia, LI. 512. The sword … is an exceedingly handsome example of the *two-hander of the sixteenth century.

28 1648.  Hexham, II. Een Slach-swaerdt, a *two-handie Sword.

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