single-hand
Americanverb (used with object)
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Soon he will begin single-hand plyometrics, gearing that stage of the rehab process to his pitching motion.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
This weapon has a small single-hand musket stock, and the bell-mouthed barrel is filled nearly to the muzzle with powder and round bullets the size of buckshot.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
If the "buckeye" was hand-painting, this was "single-hand" painting, and it did not take a generation to bring the change about, only a season.
From Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
Taking my thirty-eight-foot rope I threw a single-hand diamond, hitching the lady good and hard to mare and cargo.
From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger
“No raff need, cappen; givee me you gun—Saloo swim single-hand well as two; he cally the gun.”
From The Castaways by Pearse, Lolbran
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