handless

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈhændləs/

Definition of handless

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Without any hands.
    “Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him”
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adj

  1. Without any hands.
    “Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him”
  2. (obsolete)Not handy; awkward.
    “We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.”
    “This, however, was a thing that, left to himself, would have simply rendered Bill Lampiere a most handless workman at everything he attempted.”
  3. (not-comparable)Without a handle.
    “She gave him a few coppers from the handless jug.”
    “One battered, spoutless, handless, japanned-in jug, that did not contain water, for it leaked.”
    “Chinese soup is sipped in a handless cup (Chinese soup bowl) with its own soupspoon.”
    “The leftover dough from the loaves would be rolled out with a handless, wooden, rolling pin.”

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Etymology

From Middle English handles, from Old English *handlēas, from Proto-Germanic *handulausaz (“handless”), equivalent to hand + -less. Cognate with West Frisian hânleas (“handless”), German handlos (“handless”), Icelandic handlauss (“handless”).

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