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single-hand

[ sing-guhl-hand ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to sail (a craft) without help from others.


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Other Words From

  • single-hander noun
  • single-handing noun

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Example Sentences

And given that no one was happy in the first place, not a single hand will be raised.

Probably no family so extensive as this has ever been monographed by a single hand with such minuteness and exhaustive care.

Judging it correctly, he turned his back and ran; then, whirling about just in time, put up a single hand to nab the ball.

But not even with this concentration of authority in a single hand was Henry content.

All secular, all ecclesiastical power was summed up in a single hand.

As his single hand had fed them through the winter so his single hand protected them from death in the spring.

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