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
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 Roger Pocock
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 Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
It had been a little thing in itself, but it meant much to a woman playing a desperate single-hand in the equally desperate Klondike rush of ’97.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London
The length of the rod for single-hand fly fishing should be from twelve to thirteen feet long—a length which may be used with great facility without tiring the arm.
From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by William Blacker
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