Crossword clues for wieldy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wieldy \Wield"y\, a.
Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed
to unwieldy. [R.]
--Johnson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "capable of wielding," from wield + -y (2). Meaning "capable of being weilded" is from 1580s. Old English had wielde "powerful, victorious."
Wiktionary
a. easily managed
WordNet
adj. easy to handle or use or manage; "a large but wieldy book" [syn: manageable] [ant: unwieldy]
Usage examples of "wieldy".
Any road, it turned out a false alarm and I left Wieldy soothing the lad.
This seemed as good a way as any to get Wieldy to bring him in without coming over all maternal.
Any road, from what Wieldy said about the lad, I wonder if he told them owt, except maybe that Wieldy was a punter after his arse.
Lubanski alive and feeding Wieldy with titbits because he liked to see him smile meant nowt.
It occurs in extensive strata just a little way under the yellow soil, so it is easily got at with simple picks and spades, and, being rather crumbly, the stone is easily broken into wieldy chunks.
An unauthorized operation, NCS deceived, a policeman taken hostage, a shot fired, Wieldy lying wounded in the snow .
Maria, and even the preface of this wieldy little book owned that Maria was a girl.
He was rock-solid as she wrapped her fingers around his wieldy silken shaft and stroked him.
During a late snowstorm, however, Jing set him to making calculations based on the new observations, couched in the Ntahish symbols which were wieldier than what obtained in the north, and the results overwhelmed the poor exsacerdote, even though he had been properly fed for moonlongs past and learned to separate dream from fantasy as never before in his young life.