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Definition of Barehanded
1. Adjective. With bare hands. "Fought barehanded"
Definition of Barehanded
1. n. Having bare hands.
Definition of Barehanded
1. Adjective. Having no covering to the hands ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension) With no tool or weapon ¹
3. Adverb. With no covering on the hands ¹
4. Adverb. (context: by extension) Without using a tool or weapon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barehanded
1. barehand [v] - See also: barehand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barehanded
Literary usage of Barehanded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Mississippi Valley: From Its Discovery to the End of by Alzamore H. Clark, John Randolph. Spears (1903)
"All met unarmed according to agreement, but the Frenchmen and Indians tried to
carry off the Kentuckians barehanded. Of course they failed, for no two men ..."
2. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"She bent some, and if Elnora proves that she can walk out barehanded in the
morning and come back with that much money in her pocket, an armful of books, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... it has not ventured into the prestigious, but costly and nonutilitarian, field
of radio astronomy, despite some barehanded efforts by several scientists ..."
4. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"Leave lines alive and have it so understood, because line- will work barehanded
on wires supposed to be dead, and these should be crossed with a live line, ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"No need of a sword in your hands, you RO thru life. bareheaded, barehanded, in
the midst of a great kindliness. . . . Listen to me. Sivert; yon he content! ..."
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