barehanded
IPA: bˈɛrhændɪd
adjective
- Having no covering on the hands.
- (by extension) With no tool or weapon.
adverb
- With no covering on the hands.
- (by extension) Without using a tool or weapon.
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Examples of "barehanded" in Sentences
- He doesn't know you aren't some kind of barehanded assassin!
- '' As it was, the kid came in barehanded, and the first baseman made a real nice catch. ''
- Mitchell overran the ball, had to reach back and pluck it barehanded from the sky, a guaranteed end-of-the-millennium highlight film clip.
- On both days, the barehanded protestors, risking their lives, courageously faced the security forces of the occupying powers armed to their teeth.
- Under Ottoman rule until 1911, the eastern Libya region was known as Cyrenaica, named for a mythological Greek maiden whose favorite sport, according to lore, was killing lions barehanded.
- Donovan, who soon discovered his ragtag group was a long way from being fit for trench warfare, had his men run three miles each morning, then strip to the waist and fight one another barehanded to make them mean.
- Porter has another drill in which he'll make the fielders hold a football in their throwing hand while catching a ball barehanded, "which makes them focus on reading the ball all the way into their glove," Porter said.
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