handling

Meanings

Noun

• A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
• The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
• The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
• A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

Verb

• Present participle of handle

Origin

• From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung ("handling"), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling ("trade, operation, action"), German Handlung ("act, action"), Swedish handling ("act, deed, action").
• From handle.