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English Dictionary: (handle)	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HandleHandle\Han"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Handled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Handling} .] [OE. handlen, AS. handian; akin to D. handelen to trade, G. handeln. See {Hand}.] 1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. HandleHandleme, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. --Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. --Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. --Shak. 3. To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands. The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handlehandletheir colts six months every year. --Sir W. Temple. 4. To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock. 5. To deal with; to make a business of. They that handlehandlethe law knew me not. --Jer. ii. 8. 6. To treat; to use, well or ill. How wert thou handled being prisoner. --Shak. 7. To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. You shall see how I will handlehandleher. --Shak. 8. To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection. We will handlehandlewhat persons are apt to envy others. --Bacon. {To handlehandlewithout gloves}. See under {Glove}. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HandleHandle\Han"dle\, v. i. To use the hands. They have hands, but they handlehandlenot. --Ps. cxv. 7.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HandleHandle\Han"dle\, n. [AS. handle. See {Hand}.] 1. That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc. 2. That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool. --South. {To give a handle}, to furnish an occasion or means.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
handlehandlen. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym; a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity. Network and BBS handles function as the same sort of simultaneous concealment and display one finds on Citizen's Band radio, from which the term was adopted. Use of grandiose handles is characteristic of {warez d00dz}, {cracker}s, {weenie}s, {spod}s, and other lower forms of network life; true hackers travel on their own reputations rather than invented legendry. Compare {nick}, {screen name}. 2. A {magic cookie}, often in the form of a numeric index into some array somewhere, through which you can manipulate an object like a file or window. The form `file handle' is especially common. 3. [Mac] A pointer to a pointer to dynamically-allocated memory; the extra level of indirection allows on-the-fly memory compaction (to cut down on fragmentation) or aging out of unused resources, with minimal impact on the (possibly multiple) parts of the larger program containing references to the allocated memory. Compare {snap} (to snap a handlehandlewould defeat its purpose); see also {aliasing bug}, {dangling pointer}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
handlehandle 1. (From Citizen's Band amateur radio slang) An electronic pseudonym or "nom de guerre" intended to conceal the user's true identity. Network and BBS handles function as the same sort of simultaneous concealment and display one finds on CB. Use of grandiose handles is characteristic of {cracker}s, {weenie}s, {spod}s, and other lower forms of network life; true hackers travel on their own reputations rather than invented legendry. Compare {nick}. 2. (Macintosh) A pointer to a pointer to dynamically-allocated memory. The extra level of indirection allows on-the-fly memory compaction (to cut down on {fragmentation}) or garbage collection of unused resources, with minimal impact on the (possibly multiple) parts of the larger program containing references to the allocated memory. Compare {snap} (to snap a handlehandlewould defeat its purpose). See also {aliasing bug}, {dangling pointer}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28)