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- adjective having a short handle
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Examples
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Arizona, that also banned the short-handled hoe in 1975, grows most of the rest of domestic lettuce.
Donald Cohen: Heavy Lifting: Hotel Housekeepers Reprise Farm Workers' Struggle for Safer Working Conditions Donald Cohen 2011
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Back then, they were forced to stoop over for eight to twelve hours per day because the growers made them use short-handled hoes to tend lettuce, sugar beets, and other crops.
Donald Cohen: Heavy Lifting: Hotel Housekeepers Reprise Farm Workers' Struggle for Safer Working Conditions Donald Cohen 2011
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In the poorest countries, farmers primarily use short-handled hoes to work slash and burn plots.
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Arizona, that also banned the short-handled hoe in 1975, grows most of the rest of domestic lettuce.
Donald Cohen: Heavy Lifting: Hotel Housekeepers Reprise Farm Workers' Struggle for Safer Working Conditions Donald Cohen 2011
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It also bothers me that, given the relative sizes of the bear and the guy crouching in the foreground corner, the main character isn't going to be able to reach high enough to brain the bear with his little short-handled axe.
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This year, I particularly like their short-handled leather tote £780.
Must Haves for Spring Tina Gaudoin 2011
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I met Governor Brown in the 1970s, around the time he banned the short-handled hoe, the tool that crippled California farm workers by forcing them to toil long hours stooped in the field.
Maurice Jourdane: Governor Brown Can Do It, With Your Help Maurice Jourdane 2011
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Try instead a neat little clutch or short-handled bag and don't ever overstuff them.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2011
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I was fortunate to work at Richard's side to help abolish the cortito or short-handled hoe that forced farm workers to spend the long hot summer stooped in the fields.
Maurice Jourdane: Richard Chavez -- One Hero Among Many Maurice Jourdane 2011
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I was fortunate to work at Richard's side to help abolish the cortito or short-handled hoe that forced farm workers to spend the long hot summer stooped in the fields.
Maurice Jourdane: Richard Chavez -- One Hero Among Many Maurice Jourdane 2011
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