two-handadj.
1. Requiring both hands to wield or manage: = two-handed adj. 1.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adjective] > requiring two hands to wield or manage
two-handa1425
two-handed?a1475
two-handy1648
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [adjective] > used or controlled > used or controlled by hand > by two hands
two-handa1425
two-handed?a1475
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xi Makary had a gret twohande staffe.
a1440 Sir Degrev. 1643 Two~honde swerde.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxii. 145 He held a two handes ax.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 312 Men of large stature..[who] serve onely with the Pike or two-hand-sword.
1807 Hogg Gilmanscleuch lvii His twa-hand sword hang round his neck.
2. Done, or worked, by two persons: = two-handed adj. 2. †two-hand battle, a single combat, a duel (obsolete).
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel
handplayeOE
deraignc1300
battlea1400
duellation1502
two-hand battlec1503
combat1567
push of pick1578
monomachy1582
combacy1586
hand fight1587
duel1589
rencounter1590
single fight1598
field meeting1603
camp-fight1605
duello1606
judicial combat1610
fight of stand?1611
stand-fight?1611
business1612
monomachia1624
single combat1625
single field1630
duelliona1637
rencontrea1722
affair of honour1737
meeting1813
holmgang1847
mensur1848
duomachy1885
society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [adjective] > done in co-operation
commonc1300
two-handc1503
two-handed1657
combined1834
collaborative1927
tandem1962
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [adjective] > used or controlled > by two persons
two-handc1503
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. i/1 That noo Citezen doo twoo hand batayle.
1538 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for haftyng off the ij hand saw.
1614 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd for the baryng of a too hand sawe xij d.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective]
three-wayeda1382
quadrivial1480
forked1525
two-way1571
three-way1587
two-hand1607
trivial1614
biviousa1644
bisected1794
1607 S. Hieron Def. Ministers Reasons 38 At some crosse or two hand way.
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- to have the big eye
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- to have the cheek to do something
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- to have the field to oneself