Landly vs Handly - What's the difference?
landly | handly |
Of or pertaining to land or the land; terrestrial; rural; rustic.
*1832 , Railway locomotives and cars: Volume 1:
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:
As adjectives the difference between landly and handly
is that landly is of or pertaining to land or the land; terrestrial; rural; rustic while handly is of or pertaining to the hand; manual.landly
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Adjective
(en-adj)- [...] and which is successful, we think, in giving an agreeable impression of the landly and hospitable people of whom it treats.
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.