0 past simple and past 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: --
Pedestrians were jostled into the roadway and manhandled.
If a lad is manhandled by the police, his first concern is to protect himself.
Ail the goods have to be manhandled on to lighters and then out to the ships.
However, they had to be manhandled, and, eventually, one was locked in the lavatory.
Provision of secure parking is important, because many bikes are stolen by being manhandled into vans.
It is no longer necessary for cargoes to be manhandled over the side.
It is much more effective than the seventeen-pounder and, being so light, is more easily manhandled.
The special constable who had remained behind had been manhandled by the crowd and had received a blow on the chin.
