What is "short-handled"

Usage examples of "short-handled".

Returning to a bench on which sat a wooden keg, she began to stir the contents with a short-handled boat paddle held in hamlike fists.

The word traveled swiftly up and down the coast, and by nightfall the downtown streets were crowded with people who had come from as far away as South Point and the Waipio Valley to see for themselves if the rumor was really true -- that Lono had, in fact, returned in the form of a huge drunken maniac who dragged fish out of the sea with his bare hands and then beat them to death on the dock with a short-handled Samoan war club.

At a second checkpoint, the companions were each handed short-handled pickaxes and mesh bags for carrying ore.