single-hand

American  

[sing-guhl-hand] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˈhænd /

verb (used with object)

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

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Other Word Forms

• single-hander
  noun
• single-handing
  noun

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Example Sentences

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single-hand

Soon he will begin single-hand plyometrics, gearing that stage of the rehab process to his pitching motion.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022

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

Its greatest value, however, even to them, would be the fact that it was a battle-token given by the great single-hand knife-fighter of the white men.

From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard

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

For soft rock, single-hand drilling is from 20 to 30% cheaper than double-hand, but this difference does not hold good for the harder rocks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

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