English

Adjective

doublehanded ‎(not comparable)

1. (sailing) Requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.
   • 2006, Beth Leonard, The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, ISBN 0071784489:

     This section uses a survey of thirteen couples to look at typical shorthanded solutions to watchkeeping and then discusses some standard watch schedules for doublehanded crews.

2. Alternative form of double-handed
   • 1999, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American:

     When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs.

   • 1829, Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:

     Of the ancient doublehanded espadons of the Switzer, I have, in this way, received, I think, not less than six, in excellent preservation, from as many different individuals, who thus testified their general approbation of these pages.

   • 1987, Women's Review - Issues 14-21:

     It is this doublehanded judgement that Personal Services seeks to expose.

   • 2014, Simon Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, ISBN 0748689338, page 16:

     It is with this ambiguity in mind that one can begin a serious deconstructive, or doublehanded, reading of Levinas's work.

Adverb

doublehanded ‎(not comparable)

1. With two hands.
   • 2010, Stephen Dando-Collins, Legions of Rome: The definitive history of every Roman legion, ISBN 9781623652012:

     For maximum destructive effect, the user crashed his falx down on to the target doublehanded, then drew the blade back toward himself in a sawing motion.

Verb

doublehanded

1. simple past tense and past participle of doublehand
   • 2010, ‎Robert & Jeanne Crawford, Black Feathers, ISBN 1440191964, page 34:

     The boat, Rain Drop, was being doublehanded by a couple of past Cal 20 sailors.