single-hand

[ sing-guhl-hand ]

verb (used with object)

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

Other Words From

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg