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one-hand

one-hand \one"-hand`\, one-handed \one`-hand"ed\, a. Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.

Usage examples of "one-hand".

Glenna threw herself forward, taking back the wheel, and Jenny scrambled aft, to help one-handed Claus with bailing.

Brennen sealed the hatch, perching on the tilted doorplate and clinging one-handed to the security handle.

As she watched from the corner of her eye, he slipped the iron goatsfoot from his belt and spanned the steel-bowed weapon one-handed.

She went to stand by Hotblood, rested a hand on the pommel and vaulted up one-handed.

Southpaw, one-hander off the backhand side, a serve Donnie Stott likes to clock with radar, and chart.

The claymore was, for most men, a two-handed weapon, but his strength and size gave him the power to swing the six-foot blade one-handed, freeing his left hand for yet another blade, or a Lochaber axe.

He demonstrated how they could play a slow octave, say, when Sarah unfolded swanlike in one of her bareback postures, or a quick tinkling arpeggio as Sunday spun through a fast one-hand walkover.

Dreiser had not seen her do six hundred one-hand pushups in barracks once, on a bet.

Occasionally he stole a glance back at the fading lonely lights of No-Ombrulsk, but mainly he looked straight ahead where lay, five nights and days away, Rime Isle and sweet Cif, and poor one-hand Fafhrd and the most of their men and Fafhrd's Afreyt, whom the Mouser found rather austere.