handless

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"could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"

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  1. Without a hand or hands: as, a handless clock.
  2. Unhandy; awkward. [Scots.]

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  1. from Middle English handles (= OFries. handlos = Old High German Middle High German hantlos, German handlos = Icelandic handlauss); from hand + -less.
 

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