handling

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: han=dling
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

handling, n. [AS. handlung.].

•  A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.  [1913 Webster]

  "The heavens and your fair handling
  Have made you master of the field this day."  [1913 Webster]
•  The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.  Fairholt.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

handling

accomplishment, achievement, action, administration, agency, authority, care, caressing, charge, command, commission, completion, conduct, control, custodianship, direction, discharge, dispatch, driving, effectuation, employment, enactment, execution, exercise, exploitation, feeling, fingering, friction, frottage, functioning, governance, government, guidance, husbandry, implementation, intendance, lead, leading, management, managery, managing, manipulation, means of dealing, occupation, operancy, operation, ordering, oversight, palpation, performance, performing, perpetration, petting, pilotage, practice, pressure, regulation, responsibility, rubbing, running, steerage, steering, stewardship, stroking, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, transaction, treatment, usage, using, utilization, work, working, workings