What is "long-handled"

Usage examples of "long-handled".

Neatly stored behind the seats were a small chain saw, long-handled metal shears, a surgical saw, sharp knives, plastic zip-lock bags, a Black & Decker Work Buddy to hold the doctor's arms still, and a DHL Air Express crate with prepaid delivery fee, estimating the weight of Dr Lecter's head at six kilos and his hands at a kilo apiece.

In the back yard a black woman plied a long-handled paddle to turn baking bread in a beehive oven.

The man was surrounded by bushel baskets, and he held a long-handled crab net made of chicken wire.

A lavender chip hat, tied under her chin with long yellow ribands, was placed over a small white satin cap beneath, and she carried a long-handled parasol, and a silk reticule.

Jarnish pulls a long-handled clay pipe from a brownish dish on the otherwise empty serving table and a pouch from his vest pocket.

A small table contained a variety of very long-handled, highly polished wooden implements that appeared to be probes, dilators, and spatulas for the nonsurgical investigation of body orifices, some jars of local medication, and, incongruously, the lifeless x-ray scanner left by Conway.

Sam got the long-handled dust mop and got the spider webs out of the corners of the high ceiling, and I wiped down the baseboards.

As she had anticipated, he went straight to the long-handled, fishermen's gaffs that hung on the wall and pulled two of them out of the spring-clips that held them.

Other Swick riding large, sucker-toed geckoes followed behind, using long-handled brushes to spread and position the natural glue before it could harden.

Grabbing a long-handled brush and a bar of hard soap, Kindan directed Zenor to a bucket of scrubsand.

Lines were obsolete and everyone lent a hand in scooping them out by the dozen in the long-handled nets.

He got a long-handled screwdriver, a clawhammer, a pair of pliers, and an electric lantern from the workroom and carried them upstairs.

A polished powder horn hung by a strap from his right shoulder, and a long-handled tomahawk had been thrust in at his wide belt, beside a fourteen-inch bowie knife.

In its hold were dozens of fifty-five gallon drums of paint, and ropes and scaffolds and long-handled rollers and a gang of a half-dozen or so workmen wearing coveralls that displayed the spills and drips incidental to their trade.

Others hovered above them, pointing, and one shirtless fellow slapped clumsily at the water with a long-handled shrimp net.