single-hand

[ sing-guhl-hand ]

/ ˈsɪŋ gəlˈhænd /

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verb (used with object)

to sail (a craft) without help from others.

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OTHER WORDS FROM single-hand

single-hander, nounsingle-handing, noun

Words nearby single-hand

single-family, single father, single file, single file, in, single-foot, single-hand, single-handed, single-handedly, single-hearted, singlehood, single-hung

How to use single-hand in a sentence

And given that no one was happy in the first place, not a single hand will be raised.
Phone Hacking: The Scandal that Changed Everything for the British Press|David Frum|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Probably no family so extensive as this has ever been monographed by a single hand with such minuteness and exhaustive care.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various
Judging it correctly, he turned his back and ran; then, whirling about just in time, put up a single hand to nab the ball.
Mystery Wings|Roy J. Snell
But not even with this concentration of authority in a single hand was Henry content.
History of the English People, Volume III (of 8)|John Richard Green

All secular, all ecclesiastical power was summed up in a single hand.
History of the English People, Volume III (of 8)|John Richard Green
As his single hand had fed them through the winter so his single hand protected them from death in the spring.
The Young Trailers|Joseph A. Altsheler