Crossword clues for handler
handler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handler \handler\ n.
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one who trains or exhibits animals.
Syn: animal trainer.
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someone in charge of training an athlete (especially a boxer) or a team.
Note: The term is used sometimes sarcastically of political consultants: ``the president's handlers''.
Syn: coach, manager.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who handles" anything, agent noun from handle (v.). Specific sense of "one engaged in trade" is from 1690s; that of "prizefighter's assistant" (1916) was earlier used in reference to dogfights and cockfights (1825).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone. 2 (context in combination English) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter). 3 (context computing English) A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
WordNet
n. one who trains or exhibits animals [syn: animal trainer]
an agent who handles something or someone; "the senator's campaign handlers"
(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team [syn: coach, manager]
Wikipedia
Handler or The Handler may refer to:
Usage examples of "handler".
Ray Larkin, scout dog handler, and this is Taylor Hollister, agrobiologist extraordinaire.
The barricade ahead of them was corycium, brought in by the handler servos, and plasma rounds had splashed off the front, or welded the ingots together and made the barrier stronger.
Luigi was a spy, or a counterspy, or an operative, or an agent of some strain, or simply a handler or a contact, or maybe a stringer, but he was first and foremost an Italian.
One of the handlers managed to find a shovel and used it unceremoniously to scoop up five chicks at a time, depositing them back in the wire cage.
There is no Disneyesque artifice in his account of the service of his brave dogs and their Marine handlers.
Faithful is an interesting and accurate account of the World War II war dogs and the brave and unique ability of their handlers.
Then, in the final days of his administration, President Clinton signed into law a bill that allows military handlers to bring home the dogs with which they work.
In many cases, in fact, because the original, civilian owners were unable or unwilling to take the dogs back, the dogs went home with the handlers that they had served so well during the war.
Messenger dogs would carry messages between their two handlers as well as small amounts of ammunition, medicine and other supplies in saddlebags to units that could not be reached otherwise because of enemy fire.
The handlers of the scout dogs, for example, would be trained as expert infantry scouts: they would learn how to trail men through the forest or jungle and be schooled in all aspects of small arms.
It was a memo, addressed to all personnel of the War Dog Training School, and it outlined the spirit in which Marine handlers and their dogs would be trained and cared for.
Throughout the war, 25 to 30 percent of the dogs received at Camp Lejeune were returned because they were unsuitable, and even more would be sent home after the greater test of combat where the lives of the handler, the dog, and the Marines with them depended on an intelligent dog that never lost its cool under any kind of fire.
A squad consisting of twelve handlers and their dogs were assigned to a trainer.
Just as the dogs came to understand what certain voice commands and hand signals meant, they learned, through constant repetition, the significance of the collars that the handlers placed on them.
Some dogs refused to cooperate, and in desperation, their handlers crawled through the barrel while dragging the dogs through by their leashes.