noun
- A considerable number or amount; a good deal.
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect
verb
- To handle or manage; to deal with.
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect; archaic
Examples
- There were hantles of people at the market that day.
- He had a hantle of experience in farming.
- She hantles the business affairs with great skill.
- A hantle of work remains to be done.
- The old farmer could hantle most any problem that came his way.