wieldsome
adjEtymology From wield + -some.
1
Archaic Characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.
- […] Cesar […] commaunded that the Galleyes wherof the facion was more straunge to the sauage Britons, and the mouing more redy and wieldsome, should be remoued a lyttell from the shyps of Burthen […]1565, Arthur Golding, transl., The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia, London: William Seres, Book Four, p. 99b:
- The wieldsome agencies are, again, two-fold. Those that are authorative and of the government, mandatory; the others in part or altogether voluntary are more directory than mandatory.1902, The State of Corrections: Proceedings, ACA Annual Conferences:
- Derived terms
- unwieldsome