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ng, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar. Hawk boy, an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.

The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.

The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

A kind of set of drawers. [U. S.] "Mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles." K. L. Bates.

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

f a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay.

A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

ities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

a); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle. Dr. Prior.

ssel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

ting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.

A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. Chaucer.

t of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.…

d with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree. -- Ladder handle, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to grasp with the hand in climbing. -- Ladder shell (Zoöl.), a spiral marine shell of the genus Scalaria. See Scalaria.

A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping. When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles. Boyle.