handled
/ˈhændl̩d/ adjective B1- Having a handle or handles, often of a specified number or kind. · a two-handled drinking cup· A rake is a long-handled toothed gardening tool.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.
With his last breath he said to himself, “I am rightly served; for what business had I who had never handled a net to try and catch fish?”
However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
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