Sentence:  Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible , it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it , and the plate of bread and butter , and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them <WSD>handle</WSD> first . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it