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: --
Tailwheels are smaller and cheaper to buy and to maintain, and manhandling a tailwheel aircraft on the ground is easier.
Jockey wheels incorporate a castor action, permitting travel in any direction while manhandling a trailer while it is not attached to a vehicle.
Should they go on in the hope of making contact—which would mean manhandling their loads up that precipitous trail, a mile into the sky—or turn back?
In certain circumstances, manhandling is legitimate.
There is less manhandling of coal today, and the machine removes much of the uncongenial work previously done by miners.
He was in difficulty about manhandling these people.
In that way a great deal of manhandling would be eliminated.
This is the kind of approach that is being made, sometimes it is dealt with by manhandling; sometimes it is by a mechanical device.
