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¶HANTLED, adj. ? Appar. for handled, having a handle, used fig. = impressive.Kcd. 1932 L. G. Gibbon Sunset Song 47:
Will . . . treasured it [the word Jehovah] . . . till he might find a thing or a man or beast that would fit this word, well-shaped and hantled and grand.
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