onehanded

Adjective

one-handed (not comparable)

1. Having only one hand.
   • And who said the one-handed guy couldn't be self-sufficient? Certainly not his physical therapist, Gus, who led him to believe he'd be as good as new with a spaceage prosthesis and a crapload of physical and occupational therapy.2012, Carrie Weaver, Temporary Nanny, →ISBN
2. Performed using only one hand.
   • A one-handed save by Wojciech Szczesny prevented Darren Pratley giving Bolton an early lead and Arsenal looked short of ideas in a goalless first half.2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms:

   one-handed tourniquet

3. Designed for use with one hand
   • The hoplites were pezetæri, the sarissa-armed, and hypaspists, a more select body, aimed with one-handed pike, sword and shield.2012, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Alexander: A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the...
   1. (specifically) Pornographic in nature.
      • ... Boys sexual content mostly consists of a series of violent and less than titillating homosexual assaults. Word of mouth among the one-handed readership would not have been good.2007, Neil Pearson, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 401
4. That uses one hand.
   • The one-handed shooter, the target man who fires the national match course, turns about 45 degrees from the target, separates his feet about the same distance, fully extends his hand, locking the elbow, and with head and body erect looks over the sights.2015, William Hamilton, My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting, →ISBN
5. Involving the actions of only one person.
   • I don't think she knew what a relief that was, because I would have been poor help for Ralph as a one-handed crew.2011, Ralph & Phyllis Nansen, Stone Boat Odyssey, →ISBN, page 251

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