Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SINGLE-HANDED

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Definitions of SINGLE-HANDED

1. Without help from others; unassisted.
2. Using only one hand.
3. Designed for only one hand.
4. In a single-handed manner.
5. inflection of single-hand

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Examples of Using SINGLE-HANDED in a Sentence

• A backsword is a type of sword characterised by having a single-edged blade and a hilt with a single-handed grip.
• The famous transatlantic single-handed yacht race Route du Rhum, which takes place every four years in November, is between Saint Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe.
• She was known for her all-court style of play and for being one of the few female players to use a single-handed backhand.
• It is not our duty to defend Abyssinia single-handed – no-one has suggested it; but it is our duty, if covenants mean anything whatsoever, to oppose this piece of brigandage at Geneva, and after.
• BOC Challenge, now renamed the Velux 5 Oceans Race, a round-the-world single-handed sailing yacht race named after its then main sponsor BOC.
• A hatchet (from the Old French , a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammerhead on the other side.
• Despite his expertise in particular animal groups, Leach's greatest contribution was his almost single-handed modernisation of the whole of British zoology following its stagnation during the long war with post-revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
• In 1960, he entered and won the first Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, which had been founded by 'Blondie' Hasler, in the 40 foot ocean racing yawl Gipsy Moth III.
• MacArthur's second place in the 2000–2001 edition of the Vendée Globe, with a time of 94 days, 4 hours and 25 minutes, was the world record for a single-handed, non-stop, monohull circumnavigation by a woman.
• The Laser is a class of single-handed, one-design sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight.
• The Finn dinghy is a single-handed, cat-rigged sailboat, and a former Olympic class for men's sailing.
• Lisa Lyttelton, Dowager Viscountess Cobham (née Clayton, born 30 December 1958) is the first British woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world.
• A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.
• I will never bring reproach upon my hallowed arms, nor will I desert the comrade at whose side I stand, but I will defend our altars and our hearths, single-handed or supported by many.
• It depicts the comic adventures of a modern American knight-errant visiting Europe on the verge of World War II and waging a single-handed, quixotic struggle against the Nazis in various countries.
• Rose converted Lively Lady to a yawl by adding a mizzenmast and in 1964 participated in the second single-handed transatlantic race, finishing in fourth place.
• Upon Hontheim as auxiliary bishop and vicar-general fell the whole spiritual administration of the diocese; this work, in addition to that of pro-chancellor of the university, he carried on single-handed until 1778, when Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain was appointed his coadjutor.
• The term "single-handed sword" or "one-handed sword" was coined to distinguish from "two-handed" or "hand-and-a-half" swords.
• Sergeant Major Wright took charge and single-handed he silenced with grenades and bayonet three Spandau posts and then led his men to consolidate the position.
• A Bauernwehr ("peasant's knife" or "peasant's sidearm") or Hauswehr ("home/household knife") is a single-handed knife, used for utility and defence.

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