Crossword clues for handier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handy \Hand"y\ (h[a^]nd"[y^]), a. [Compar. Handier (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Handiest.] [OE. hendi, AS. hendig (in comp.), fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs clever, wise.]
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Performed by the hand. [Obs.]
To draw up and come to handy strokes.
--Milton. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit. ``Each is handy in his way.''
--Dryden.Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.
(Naut.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativehandy)
WordNet
See handy
adj. easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener" [syn: convenient, ready to hand(p)]
easy to use; "a handy gadget"
skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"
Usage examples of "handier".
Ned had forgotten how much handier an air-cushion vehicle was when the driver didn't have to contend with tonnes of armored inertia.
Hasardar was handier and could be relied on for approval and amazement at what Afra could create out of a sheet of paper.
The little vessels were ideal for short-range exploration from a central base, and they were far handier in an atmosphere than ships of greater size.
A sphere is a more efficient way to enclose space, but the round-nosed cylinders were handier and could focus their guns on a point in a fashion the older vessels couldn't match.
A convenient location, much handier for me than the quarters of Alexander Scheffler, the master baker, in Kleinhammer-Weg.
I dragged the man across the street into what little cover was offered by the taxi and lowered him into the canal as soundlessly as he would doubtless have lowered me if he'd been a bit handier with the whippet, which I now lowered into the canal after him.
That struck her as a lot handier than standing on the curb waving frantically at passing cabs, as she knew hundreds of people had started doing as soon as the first raindrop fell.
Nobody has yet worked out a handier field ration than “gorp,” the dry mix of nuts, fruit bits and carob I kept-but I tossed in a few slabs of pemmican, too.
The last time our power lines petered out, we didn’t even start our two-kilowatt unit because we had a handier solution to an evening’s inconvenience.
But in casting about for a likely stone, the devil showed him a handier weapon.
Its keypad permitted handier access to some planetary communications nets than the voice-driven AIs built into commo helmets did.