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both-handedly

both-handedly adverb: using both hands.

Adverb

both-handedly (comparative more both-handedly, superlative most both-handedly)

  1. Using both hands.
    • A-kneeling, a lad armcrosses his chest as a knight afoot, armed-at-all-points, both-handedly overhelms a sword & swooshes ~ the colée is dealt & felt!1993, Pat'rick Neal Pugh, Calif of Fornia, →ISBN, page 95

Forms of both-handedly

comparativemore both-handedly
superlativemost both-handedly
alternative formboth-handed

Origin of both-handedly

From both-handed + -ly.

Questions about both-handedly

What does both-handedly mean?
Both-handedly means using both hands.
What part of speech is both-handedly?
Both-handedly is an adverb.

Words near both-handedly in the dictionary

  1. Both respirators
  2. both siderism
  3. both sidesism
  4. both-and
  5. both-handed
  6. both-handedly
  7. both-handedness
  8. both-sided
  9. both-sidedness
  10. both-sideism
  11. both-siderism

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