0 present participle of manhandle
1 to touch or hold someone roughly and with force, often when taking them somewhere:
There were complaints that the police had manhandled some of the demonstrators.
2 to move something using the physical strength of the body:
Worden seeks to explain how historians have been dependent upon, and sometimes mislead by, the manhandling of texts by their editors.
As challengers, ticket distributors, judges of elections, and recording clerks, they ran the machinery of democracy, manipulating the returns where they could, manhandling their opponents where they must.
There is a mixture of the most modern cranes and motor lorries being used to handle the traffic, alongside horses and simple manhandling.
The manhandling stretches up or down, with patients either to be operated on or having been operated on.
And how long do they go on with this manhandling?
The economy, far from benefiting by the manhandling of "stop-go" policies, has suffered drastically by reason of them.
To some people it means the development of mechanical methods of moving components from one process to another without the delays involved in manhandling.
This is the kind of approach that is being made, sometimes it is dealt with by manhandling; sometimes it is by a mechanical device.
