Usually means: Tool or mechanism for gripping.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. handle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. handle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. handle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. handle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. handle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Handle, handle: Wordnik
  7. handle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. handle: Wiktionary
  9. handle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. handle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. handle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. handle: Dictionary.com
  13. handle (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. handle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Handle (computing), Handle (disambiguation), Handle (grip), Handle (mathematics), Handle, The Handle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Handle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. handle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. handle: Rhymezone
  19. handle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. handle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Handle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. handle: Free Dictionary
  23. handle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. handle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. handle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. handle: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Handle: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Handle: Investopedia
  5. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  6. handle: Legal dictionary
  7. handle: Financial dictionary

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. handle: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. handle: Netlingo
  3. handle: CCI Computer
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. handle: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Handle: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. handle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. handle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. handle (n.): Cats
  3. HANDLE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. handle: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Handle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. handle, handle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. handle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See handleable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
noun:  An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
noun:  (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
noun:  (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
noun:  (slang) A name or nickname, especially as an identifier over the radio or Internet.
noun:  (slang) A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
noun:  (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
noun:  (UK, informal) A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
noun:  (Australia, chiefly Northern Territory, New Zealand) A 10 fluid ounce (285 mL) glass of beer.
noun:  (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol.
noun:  (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
noun:  (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
noun:  (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.
noun:  (slang) A person's nose.
noun:  (horse racing, gambling) The amount wagered in the various pari-mutuel pools for a particular event or events.
verb:  (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
verb:  (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
verb:  (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
verb:  (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
verb:  (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
verb:  (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
verb:  (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
verb:  (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
verb:  (intransitive) To use the hands.
verb:  (soccer, intransitive) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

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