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What (who) is Manhandle - definition
manhandle
¦ verb
1. move (a heavy object) with great effort.
2. handle roughly by dragging or pushing.
manhandle
(manhandles, manhandling, manhandled)
1.
If someone is manhandled, they are physically held or pushed, for example when they are being taken somewhere.
Foreign journalists were manhandled by armed police, and told to leave...
They manhandled the old man along the corridor.
VERB: be V-ed, V n prep/adv, also V n
2.
If you manhandle something big or heavy somewhere, you move it there by hand.
The three of us manhandled the uncovered dinghy out of the shed.
VERB: V n prep/adv
Manhandle
·add. ·vt To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled.
II. Manhandle ·add. ·vt To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon.
Examples of use of Manhandle
1. "It must have taken a number of people to manhandle it onto a lorry," he added.
2. There was not an animal he was not prepared to manhandle.
3. Then these two toughies came round and wanted to manhandle me out.
4. "They had no right to manhandle my staff and the press," Miss Rice said.
5. It took seven hours and 14 minutes to manhandle into position the 660lb gyroscope, the size of a washing machine.