double-handed

adjective

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Involving both hands.
“With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.”
Designed to be used with two hands.
“Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod.”
Involving two people.
“The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.”
Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
“A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.”
“Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.”
deceitful; deceptive
“Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.”
“While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.”

With two hands.
“Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.”

simple past and past participle of double-hand
“I could see it the first time I met her, the way she peered at Carlo, whom she had just met. and at the gala the other night, the way she fell into Adrian Franklin and then double-handed his hand when he helped her up.”