1. A considerable number or amount; a good deal.
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect

1. 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.