Definitions
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- adjective having a long handle
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Examples
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Hotel owners would also have to provide long-handled mops and dusters so housekeepers won't have to clean bathrooms on their hands and knees as they do now.
Donald Cohen: Heavy Lifting: Hotel Housekeepers Reprise Farm Workers' Struggle for Safer Working Conditions Donald Cohen 2011
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The CRLA argued that farm workers should be allowed to use a four-foot long-handled hoe to reduce back injuries.
Donald Cohen: Heavy Lifting: Hotel Housekeepers Reprise Farm Workers' Struggle for Safer Working Conditions Donald Cohen 2011
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There was only one spoon, a long-handled one, and they dipped, turn and turn about, into the pot.
THE MEAT 2010
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"I wait," Ngurn prompted after a long pause, the long-handled tomahawk unassumingly ready in his hand.
THE RED ONE 2010
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The woolly-heads made a run for me, each with a long-handled, fantail tomahawk with which to hack off my head.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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The woolly heads made a run for me, each with a long-handled, fantail tomahawk with which to hack off my head.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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A long-handled wooden spoon lay in the empty bowl.
"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010) Brad Watson 2010
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At the moment they are all in a cupboard with hundreds of plastic carrier bags (which arrive in the house at a rate of knots despite my never using one when I go shopping, armed with my ancient canvas long-handled bag or a rucksack).
Miscellaneous Maxine 2009
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The woolly-heads made a run for me, each with a long-handled, fantail tomahawk with which to hack off my head.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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The rest were armed with spears, clubs, bows and arrows, and long-handled tomahawks.
Chapter 11 2010
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