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Answer for the clue "A manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions ", 8 letters:
joystick

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane [syn: stick , control stick ] a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As soon as he saw the horizon, Jack centralised the joystick and rudder, getting back to level flight. ▪ At the bottom is a thumb-operated, miniature joystick flanked by two buttons. ▪ Control of the ship can be handled by mouse, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Joystick ( Janice Olivia Yanizeski ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also joy stick , 1910, aviators' slang for the control lever of an airplane, from joy + stick (n.).

Usage examples of joystick.

Hand light on the joystick, she veered toward the green smolder of Seattle, riding down a cloud canyon aflicker with electric bursts.

Now the very shabby-looking old industrial joystick bolted to a rollaway table was the one thing left that might get them out of this.

There were all sorts of controls within easy reachkeyboards, joysticks and joystrings, light-styli, a helmet for providing artificial realities, and feedback gloves that would allow Awad to put himself inside the display and interact with it.

The left armrest contained a row of several joysticks or sliders that could individually be moved back and forth, left to right, between two extremes.

Still crawfishing, she thumbed her joystick while shouting "Missiles away!

In a contoured seat like a masseur couch without the masseur attachments, he guided his ‘cycle with pedals and a joystick.

In a contoured seat like a masseur couch without the masseur attachments, he guided his 'cycle with pedals and a joystick.

They told you what it was going to be, they pulled disorientations and sensory assaults, and learned the mem-techniques from the starship crew, and hoped you could get the threads back when you came out—but meanwhile you just kept talking to the computer and the carrier and moving your markers with the joystick, laying the strike and the strategy as if you were seeing it tamely on the light-table instead of on monitors, with numbers and grids floating in glowing colors.

They told you what it was going to be, they pulled disorientations and sensory assaults, and learned the them-techniques from the starship crew, and hoped you could get the threads back when you came out—but meanwhile you just kept talking to the computer and the carrier and moving your markers with the joystick, laying the strike and the strategy as if you were seeing it tamely on the light-table instead of on monitors, with numbers and grids floating in glowing colors.

It drops like a dumb bomb, but we can monitor its flight on one of the TV screens and 'fly' it in with a joystick.

Any ham-handed lurch at the joystick was instantly dumbed down into a gentle, nonlethal veer or dip.

Johnnie snapped open the cover of his own controls, slid the magenta cursor along the docks with his joystick, and began tapping a function key.

Two joysticks extended from her backpack to where she could reach them with gauntletted hands.

Birdies left thumb rocked the gun control from main to coax while his right hand expertly teased the joystick to bring the pipper onto his targets.

Birdie's left thumb rocked the gun control from main to coax while his right hand expertly teased the joystick to bring the pipper onto his targets.