wieldy

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A courier arrived from the Double Mountain range and reported a second contingent of heifers ready, but that the steers would overrun for a wieldy herd.

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  1. adjective Easily wielded or managed.

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  • Instead, we started off on foot, trying to look as if we had no association with it, and we climbed into the un- wieldy vehicle only when the city streets were far behind us. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • So, inspired by the Japanese track, I decided to create more universal words for clockwise and counter-clockwise, words which always confused me as a child and which aren't particularly wieldy —  elzr
  • * Its stress on separating the plan into wieldy and governable stages
  • Albeit the high crucial infos that might have saved America from another terrorist's pique, those torturing technique are inhumnaely wieldy. —  WordPress.com News
  • It's larger than most digital compacts, but considerably more wieldy than most DSLRs. —  PC PRO
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  1. from Middle English weldy, extended form of welde, from Anglo-Saxon wylde, dominant, controlling, from wealdan, rule, govern: see wield. Cf. unwieldy.
 

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/ˈwildi/
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