"bewield" meaning in English

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          "text": "No grey goose quills the weapons used ;—a walking cane one feller With puissant arm bewielded, and the other his umbrella.",
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          "ref": "1900, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend, Or, Lives of the Saints",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "2015, Patricia Spencer, Albion 2",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Palak Mahajan, A Wayfare",
          "text": "She was visibly an acid attack survivor. Ali could be seen wrapping his arms around her in the picture.\nI couldn't bewield this anymore. Interminable sentiments skirmishing inside me shouted for a vent.",
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        "To hold in hand; rule; control; manage; handle; wield."
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