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Webster 1913 Edition


Handling

Han′dling

(hăn′dlĭng)
,
Noun.
[AS.
handlung
.]
1.
A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See
Handle
,
Verb.
T.
The heavens and your fair
handling

Have made you master of the field this day.
Spenser.
2.
(Drawing, Painting, etc.)
The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.
Fairholt.

Webster 1828 Edition


Handling

HAND'LING

,
ppr.
Touching; feeling; treating; managing.

Definition 2024


handling

handling

English

Noun

handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

  1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
    • Edmund Spenser
      The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
    • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
      [] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
  2. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
  3. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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Translations

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

  1. present participle of handle

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From handle + -ing

Noun

handling f, m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

  1. an act, deed
  2. action
  3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From handle + -ing

Noun

handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

  1. an act, deed
  2. action
  3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

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Swedish

Etymology

From the verb handla

Pronunciation

Noun

handling c

  1. an act, a deed
  2. an act, a document
  3. action
  4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Inflection of handling 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative handling handlingen handlingar handlingarna
Genitive handlings handlingens handlingars handlingarnas

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