handling
A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
Noun 3 meanings
A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
“baggage handling”
The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Etymology
From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).
HANDLING at a glance
HANDLING has 8 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + N 1 + D 2 + L 1 + I 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,626 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with handling
All rhymes- BEING8
- GOING7
- SOMETHING15
- DURING8
- THING9
- DOING7
- HAVING13
- GETTING9
- LOOKING12
- ANYTHING15
- NOTHING11
- EVERYTHING20
One letter away
- CANDLING12
- HANDLINE12
- SANDLING10
- DANDLING11
- HONDLING13
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