bewield

To hold in hand; rule; control; manage; handle; wield.

Verb

  1. To hold in hand; rule; control; manage; handle; wield.
    • No grey goose quills the weapons used ;—a walking cane one feller With puissant arm bewielded, and the other his umbrella. - 1883, Grip, volume 20:
    • But the hands of them that beat him became dry and the hands of the provost also, in such wise that they might not bewield them. - 1900, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden...
    • 6 cubits and a hand's breadth, all which does import that he was a notable Giant, and a 1 great strength to wear such an armor and bewield so heavy a lance. - 2015, Patricia Spencer, Albion 2:

Origin

From Middle English bewelden, equivalent to be- + wield.

Forms

bewields bewielding bewielded