Handly vs Handling - What's the difference?
handly | handling |
Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
* 1921 , Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history :
* 1971 , World justice: Volume 12:
* 2009 , Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology :
Handy; manageable.
* 1859 , The Spectator: Volume 32:
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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As an adjective handly
is of or pertaining to the hand; manual.As a noun handling is
a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.As a verb handling is
.handly
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Adjective
(en-adj)- George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
- [...] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off -set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
- The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
- The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.
handling
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(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)
