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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
Have made you master of the field this day.
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.
Definition 2024
handling
handling
English
Noun
handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)
- 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.
- Edmund Spenser
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Derived terms
Translations
touching, controlling, managing with the hands
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criminal offence
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Etymology 2
From handle.
Verb
handling
- present participle of handle
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
handling f, m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
References
- “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
References
- “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From the verb handla
Pronunciation
Noun
handling c
- an act, a deed
- an act, a document
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Declension
Inflection of handling | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | handling | handlingen | handlingar | handlingarna |
Genitive | handlings | handlingens | handlingars | handlingarnas |