doublehanded

Requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.

This section uses a survey of thirteen couples to look at typical shorthanded solutions to watchkeeping and then discusses some standard watch schedules for doublehanded crews.

Alternative form of double-handed.

When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs.

Of the ancient doublehanded espadons of the Switzer, I have, in this way, received, I think, not less than six, in excellent preservation, from as many different individuals, who thus testified their general approbation of these pages.

With two hands.

For maximum destructive effect, the user crashed his falx down on to the target doublehanded, then drew the blade back toward himself in a sawing motion.