Handling vs Handing - What's the difference?
handling | handing |
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
* Edmund Spenser
* 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
(arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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The act by which something is handed to somebody.
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
As verbs the difference between handing and handling
is that handing is present participle of lang=en while handling is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between handing and handling
is that handing is the act by which something is handed to somebody while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.handling
English
(wikipedia handling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
- at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings , &c.
- (Fairholt)
Etymology 2
From handle.Verb
(head)handing
English
(wikipedia handing)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued