Word.ws English Dictionary

doublehanded

doublehanded adjective: requiring or using a crew consisting of two people. Also the alternative form of double-handed.

Adjective

doublehanded (not comparable)

  1. Requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.
    • This section uses a survey of thirteen couples to look at typical shorthanded solutions to watchkeeping and then discusses some standard watch schedules for doublehanded crews.2006, Beth Leonard, The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, →ISBN

Adverb

doublehanded (not comparable)

  1. With two hands.
    • For maximum destructive effect, the user crashed his falx down on to the target doublehanded, then drew the blade back toward himself in a sawing motion.2010, Stephen Dando-Collins, Legions of Rome: The definitive history of every Roman legion, →ISBN

Also used as

doublehanded is also the alternative form of double-handed.

doublehanded is also the simple past and past participle of doublehand.

Origin of doublehanded

From double + handed.

Words formed from doublehanded

Questions about doublehanded

What does doublehanded mean?
Doublehanded means requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.
What part of speech is doublehanded?
Doublehanded can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near doublehanded in the dictionary

  1. doubleganger
  2. doublegangers
  3. doublegee
  4. doublegees
  5. doublehand
  6. doublehanded
  7. doublehandedly
  8. doublehandedness
  9. doublehanding
  10. doublehands
  11. doubleheader

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doublehanded (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doublehanded.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doublehanded. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.