Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-handed

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

Wiktionary
one-handed

a. 1 Having only one hand. 2 Performed using only one hand. adv. 1 Using only one hand. 2 (context figuratively English) Very easily, without effort.

Usage examples of "one-handed".

He held his deactivated saber one-handed, low in an ambiguous stance, not quite attack ready.

Far ahead, Renright was stationed at the stern of his craft, armed with a rifle of his own, while Gilden managed the helm, one-handed.

Joscelin loosed the buckles of his vambrace one-handed, sliding it up and tightening it in place over the wound, using his teeth.

Human Beings were bunched together around one trunk, nibbling leaves desultorily and clinging, one-handed, to branchlets.

Because the Iz goon was a hundred yards wide and the shore-hugging cano well beyond paddle-reach, it seemed the winner was a foregone conclusion-until the glaring oarsman of the fading pair kly made a sleight re one-handed, and a quic -of-hand gestu slender cord unfurled in midair.

But he was still drawing his knife when Rubella, one-handed, knocked him flat.

He eats, one-handed, while Tyrel sings a vaguely obscene song, tunelessly, and Styl and the other two begin to rig for sail.

Berque was a man to trust for less distance then he could be thrown one-handed, and one not to turn an unprotected back to under any circumstances, Maro figured.

Hughes removed a thick manila envelope from his briefcase and tossed it at Platt, who caught it one-handed.

Annja remembered how Roux had effortlessly shuffled and cut the deck of cards one-handed at the police station.

He made a sound of confused urgency, not quite a cry, and before Roger could stir, Brianna had shot out of bed like a guided missile, snatching the boy from his quilt and fumbling one-handed with his clothing.

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.