handiness

Even to get the poles to fit, he said, required a certain handiness.

Broadsheets are becoming tabloids - the reason is their handiness.

This improved the handiness of the weapon and allowed magazines to be loaded in the field.

He worked as a furniture upholsterer, a job that requires handiness with a knife.

The first competition was a speed and handiness competition.

What I prize most is safety, and in, the second place swift transit and handiness.

Of course I mentioned your experience, and your handiness along that line, and he was interested.

He saw, at a glance, that a native adroitness and handiness made the task to her an easier one than it proved to many.

But given the lightness and handiness of the new Charisian guns, that might not be true any longer.

The positive features of this car were robustness of construction, handiness in repairing works.

So, regardless of your handiness or experience with RC boats, there's a craft out there that's right for you.

The House Hazards domestic scientists put a buzz kill on the handiness of table saws.

It's that same handiness that has made Bic's pens and razors best sellers, too.

Just two weeks later, from October 17 to 19 aboard Lord William, she won the speed and handiness competition.

It was the handiness of it all that bound the Bic Cricket to the heart.

I could see that my handiness galled him; and, seeing it, I was ashamed of hurting him.

In the 20th century, overalls were also sometimes worn as casual clothes, due to their comfort, handiness and durability.

Her ram and the handiness of her short hull made her a dangerous opponent even to much larger vessels.

Then presently the observer would have noted a peculiar increasing handiness about the obscurer type, an unwonted intelligence growing behind its eyes.

His invention, patented in 1924, was called the 'Reddy Tee,' named for its color and handiness.

The Finnish language uses the term itäkätevyys ("Eastern handiness").

Ballard says that all the ships of this class demonstrated "excellent qualities of handiness, steadiness and seaworthiness".

Permabooks combine the virtues of handiness for the pocket and durability for the library shelf.

Presumably, the forces that produced this rich portfolio included the handiness of the eyespot in startling away predators and the need for camouflage.