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single-hand

[sing-guh l-hand]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to sail (a craft) without help from others.
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Related formssin·gle-hand·er, nounsin·gle-hand·ing, noun
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  • I well remember that she played a good game of single-hand euchre, and that we had many pleasant games together.

    Life Gleanings

    T. J. Macon

  • Taking my thirty-eight-foot rope I threw a single-hand diamond, hitching the lady good and hard to mare and cargo.

    A Man in the Open

    Roger Pocock

  • One who reads or talks to me spells with his hand, using the single-hand manual alphabet generally employed by the deaf.

    Story of My Life

    Helen Keller