This section uses a survey of thirteen couples to look at typical shorthanded solutions to watchkeeping and then discusses some standard watch schedules for doublehanded crews.2006, Beth Leonard, The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, →ISBN:
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Alternative Alternative form of double-handed.
When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs.1999, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American:
Of the ancient doublehanded espadons of the Switzer, I have, in this way, received, I think, not less than six, in excellent preservation, from as many different individuals, who thus testified their general approbation of these pages.1829, Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:
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It is this doublehanded judgement that Personal Services seeks to expose.1987, Women's Review - Issues 14-21:
It is with this ambiguity in mind that one can begin a serious deconstructive, or doublehanded, reading of Levinas's work.2014, Simon Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, →ISBN, page 16:
Derived terms
doublehandedly, doublehandedness
doublehanded
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Etymology From double + handed.
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With two hands.
For maximum destructive effect, the user crashed his falx down on to the target doublehanded, then drew the blade back toward himself in a sawing motion.2010, Stephen Dando-Collins, Legions of Rome: The definitive history of every Roman legion, →ISBN: