Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Two-handed \Two"-hand`ed\, a.
Having two hands; -- often used as an epithet equivalent to large, stout, strong, or powerful. ``Two-handed sway.''
--Milton.-
Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword.
That two-handed engine [the sword].
--Milton. Using either hand equally well; ambidextrous.
Wiktionary
a. 1 using or designed for use by both hands at once 2 Using or designed for use by two people 3 ambidextrous 4 Having two hands adv. In a two-handed manner.
WordNet
adj. equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" [syn: ambidextrous] [ant: right-handed, left-handed]
requiring two hands or designed for two people; "a two-handed sledgehammer"; "a two-handed crosscut saw"; "a machine designed for bimanual operation" [syn: bimanual]
Wikipedia
Two-handed or Double-handed may refer to:
- Two-handed manual alphabet, alphabetic writing system
- A melee weapon that requires two hands to wield, such as a
- Two-handed sword
- Two-handed bowling
- Two-handed sailboat
- Double-handed grip in tennis
- Ambidextrous
- :Category:Two-player card games
- Two-handed throwing, throwing sport aggregating distances thrown with each hand
Usage examples of "two-handed".
Which meant that Meg spent a good deal of time playing cribbage and two-handed patience with her while still contriving to do her usual household chores.
Ren gave Daile a reassuring look, then he turned to face the knight, unsheathing his two-handed sword.
The crossbows became useless at close hand and soldiers fought with short-swords or daggers, while the knights laid about with their great two-handed swords, hacking and hewing until the sheer press of Glismak bodies toppled them.
At nearly the same moment that Lowan made his move, another man, George maybe, must have taken a two-handed swipe at the Philadelphia boy and buried the hatchet head deep at the junction of his neck and shoulder.
August to visit most afternoons and play two-handed bridge with Muddie or let her tell me what occupied her mind.
Three of their comrades stood behind them as their seconds, long swords out and raised, two-handed, all of them now unmolested by Naga and his men.
One died quickly, too slow to raise his guard, thinking somehow, still, that it was all a terrible mistake until David de Rocaille opened his chest with an angled, two-handed blow.
One of them leapt into the open and took a two-handed stance, his saffer aimed directly at her.
The robe slackened at the shoulders: with a two-handed gesture of explanation or disclosure she strained the frilled divide.
For all that, he fought as calmly as if he were at his exercises, wielding his two-handed sword with careful grace.
She could just make out a blurry number ten when she slipped the tray of workings back inside and gave the nose cone a two-handed spin.
Armed with his two-handed battle sword, the Ras climbed half out of the turret and brandished it about his head.
Clyde Manship reached up, tore the surrounding material apart with one mighty two-handed gesture, and leaped to his feet on the in-and-out curving tabletop.
The foremost of these, a giant of a man in an iron morion and carrying a two-handed axe in one hand and an ox-hide shield in the other, came crashing in through the door of the tower, swinging his weapon in a deadly arc around him.
He was holding my plasmic straight out at me now, clutched in a two-handed grip, his whole body trembling.