HANDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handed mean? 

• HANDED (adjective)
  The adjective HANDED has 1 sense:

1. having or involving the use of hands

  Familiarity information: HANDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or involving the use of hands

Context example:

a four-handed card game

Similar:

one-handed (having or using a single hand)

bimanual; two-handed (requiring two hands or designed for two people)

Antonym:

handless (without a hand or hands)

Derivation:

handedness (the property of using one hand more than the other)

 Context examples 

Near the end of dinner a note was handed in by the servant.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, how can that be unless it were by a left-handed man?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The men could not bring themselves to believe that the boy Keesh, single-handed, had accomplished so great a marvel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He took the sea-lamp from its swinging frame and handed it to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“By the bye,” said he, “there was a letter handed in to-day: what was the messenger like?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They were as nearly as possible captured red-handed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to the ship and handed over the box, so as to save porterage.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He handed over a sheet torn from a note-book.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will have your turn—the universe is even-handed in letting everyone have a chance.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Tandem repeats form a right-handed superhelix (3 helixes per unit); tight repeat packing creates a cylindrical hydrophobic core throughout the structure.

(Armadillo Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)