Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective With no covering on the hands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With uncovered hands.
- Destitute of means; with no aid but one's own hands: as, he began life barehanded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Having bare hands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
covering to thehands - adjective by extension With no
tool orweapon - adverb With no covering on the hands
- adverb by extension Without using a tool or weapon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective with bare hands
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Examples
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'' As it was, the kid came in barehanded, and the first baseman made a real nice catch. ''
USATODAY.com 2007
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Mitchell overran the ball, had to reach back and pluck it barehanded from the sky, a guaranteed end-of-the-millennium highlight film clip.
USATODAY.com - Current players pick their favorite plays 2002
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He doesn't know you aren't some kind of barehanded assassin!
Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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On both days, the barehanded protestors, risking their lives, courageously faced the security forces of the occupying powers armed to their teeth.
Alim A. Seytoff: "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Alim A. Seytoff 2011
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On both days, the barehanded protestors, risking their lives, courageously faced the security forces of the occupying powers armed to their teeth.
Alim A. Seytoff: "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Alim A. Seytoff 2011
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Porter has another drill in which he'll make the fielders hold a football in their throwing hand while catching a ball barehanded, "which makes them focus on reading the ball all the way into their glove," Porter said.
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Donovan, who soon discovered his ragtag group was a long way from being fit for trench warfare, had his men run three miles each morning, then strip to the waist and fight one another barehanded to make them mean.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Under Ottoman rule until 1911, the eastern Libya region was known as Cyrenaica, named for a mythological Greek maiden whose favorite sport, according to lore, was killing lions barehanded.
Between Gadhafi and Eastern Libya, a Mutual Distrust Charles Levinson 2011
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Donovan, who soon discovered his ragtag group was a long way from being fit for trench warfare, had his men run three miles each morning, then strip to the waist and fight one another barehanded to make them mean.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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On both days, the barehanded protestors, risking their lives, courageously faced the security forces of the occupying powers armed to their teeth.
Alim A. Seytoff: "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Alim A. Seytoff 2011
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