A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
Edmund Spenser
The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
(..) at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
puhekieltä The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
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A criminal offence, the trade in steal stolen goods.