Two-handed

Definition: Two-handed

Two-handed

Adjective

1. Equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon".

2. Requiring two hands or designed for two people; "a two-handed sledgehammer"; "a two-handed crosscut saw"; "a machine designed for bimanual operation".

Date "two-handed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	TWO-HANDED. Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man or woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Two-handed

Synonyms: ambidextrous (adj), bimanual (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: hoof cutter (food & agriculture, european union), hoof cutting scissors, two handed hair clipper, two handed shears for cutting hooves, two-hand control (mechanical engineering), two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed lopping shear (food & agriculture, european union), two-handed press control (mechanical engineering).

Antonyms: left-handed (adj), right-handed (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Two-handed

English words defined with "two-handed": Bimanous, bimanual ♦ Espadon ♦ pitsaw ♦ set shot. (references)

Specialty definitions using "two-handed": Breche de Roland. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	One-Handed in a Two-Handed World (Second Edition) (reference) Ostar: The Full Story of the Observer Single-Handed Transatlantic and the Two-Handed Round Britain Races (reference) One-Handed in a Two-Handed World: Your Personal Guide to Managing Single-Handedly (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Two-handed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 74.47% of the time. "Two-handed" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	74.47%	35	58,339
Adverb (general)	25.53%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	47	N/A

Language		Translations for "two-handed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me dy duar, dydjathtak. (various references)

Arabic		‏مستخدم بكلتا اليدين. (various references)

Bulgarian		сръчен (able, adroit, agile, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, handy, ingenious, knacky, knowing, light-handed, neat-handed, practised, pretty, skilful, skillful, smart), за две ръце, двурък. (various references)

Danish		tohåndsudløsning (two-hand control, two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed press control), tohåndssikring (two-hand control, two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed press control). (various references)

Finnish		kaksinkäsinhallintalaite (two-hand control, two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed press control). (various references)

French		� deux poignées. (various references)

German		beidhändig (ambidextrous). (various references)

Greek		χειρισμός ασφαλείας με τα δύο χέρια (two-hand control, two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed press control). (various references)

Hungarian		kétkezes (ambidextrous, double-handed). (various references)

Italian		comando di sicurezza a due mani (two-hand control, two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed press control). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ツェツェ� � (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, take back, takeaway, take-off, takeout, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thesis, thulium, tree, tsetse fly, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ツヴァイハンダー (two-handed sword). (various references)

Manx		daa-laueagh (bimanous). (various references)

Pig Latin		o-handedtway

Portuguese		que exige duas mãos, ambidestro (ambidextrous). (various references)

Romanian		biman (bimanous). (various references)

Russian		двуручный, для двоих (two-player). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dvoručni. (various references)

Spanish		de dos manos (double-handed). (various references)

Swedish		tvåhands-. (various references)

Turkish		iki kişiyle oynanan, iki elli, iki elle kullanılan. (various references)

Ukrainian		дворукий (double-handed), для обох. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Two-handed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: twohanded. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "two-handed" (pronounced 'Two"-hand`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-o-t-w"
	-2 letters: donated, towhead.
	-3 letters: atoned, dawned, dawted, doated, donate, downed, handed, hanted, hodden, thawed, wanted, woaded, wonted.
	-4 letters: adown, anode, anted, atone, awned, dated, dawed, dawen, death, dewan, doeth, doted, dowed, endow, haded, hated, hawed, hodad, honda, honed, neath, noted, oaten, owned, tawed, thane, toned, towed, waded, waned, wheat.
	-5 letters: aeon, anew, ante, awed, dado.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-o-t-w"
	+2 letters: downhearted.
	+4 letters: downheartedly.
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Two-handed

Definition: Two-handed

Two-handed

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Two-handed

Slang in 1811

Synonyms: Two-handed

Crosswords: Two-handed

Commercial Usage: Two-handed

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Usage Frequency: Two-handed

Modern Translation: Two-handed

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Arabic

Bulgarian

Danish

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Misspellings: Two-handed

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Two-handed"

Anagrams: Two-handed

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