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jackhandle

noun

Etymology

From jack + handle.

  1. inherited from *handulōną✻ — “to take, grip, feel”
  2. inherited from *handulōn✻
  3. inherited from handlian — “to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”
  4. inherited from handlen
  5. compounded as jackhandle — “jack + handle”

Definitions

  1. The handle of a mechanical jack.

    • That is right because he could run, when the other fellow threatens with the jackhandle, he can still run but when there is a gun involved, he can shoot him even if the fellow does run.
    • Repperton came by, whistling cheerfully, a Coke and a bag of peanuts in one hand, a jackhandle in the other. And as he passed stall twenty, he whipped the jackhandle out sidearm and broke one of Christine's headlights.

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