handy-billy
The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 50
(han’di-bil’i), n. 1. Nawt., same as wateh-tackle-—2, A portable foree-pump on trucks. handy blow} (han’di-bl6), ». [« hand + blow3. The y is inserted in imitation of handywork, handiwork.|] A blow or stroke with the hand. Those enemies which could not come to handy blows shot arrows at us, with which I might have been hurt. Hymen’s Preeludia (1658). Both parties now were drawn so close Almost to come to handy blows. S, Butler, Hudibras, I. iii, 490, 50 handy book
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