handiness
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Handiness with the rifle is aimed at, a feature easier to attain with a short than with a long bayonet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Handiness becomes the more desirable as the machines are smaller, but handiness is not to be despised even in a large machine, except where solidity is sacrificed to obtain it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
