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# barehanded

«barehanded» in Mova's school dictionary: **Using only your hands, without gloves, tools or weapons** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective and adverb (barehanded; also bare-handed)

### meaning for a pupil

Using only your hands, without gloves, tools or weapons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories: he caught the fish barehanded; fought the beast barehanded. In safety: don't touch broken glass or hot things barehanded. Phrases: catch barehanded.

### examples

- He caught the ball barehanded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#x1)
- She picked up the nettles barehanded and got stung. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#x2)
- Never pick up broken glass barehanded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#x3)
- The hero fought the wolf barehanded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#x4)
- Grandad catches crabs barehanded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#x5)
- It was so cold that working barehanded hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/#x6)

### note

Written barehanded or bare-handed. "Bare" (uncovered), not "bear" (the animal) — homophones.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barehanded» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barehanded/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.