What does ready-handed mean?
Ready-handed means (archaic) Capable or skillful, especially at manual tasks..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic) Capable or skillful, especially at manual tasks..
Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost succumbed on this march.
And ready money had been so much more plentiful of late, owing to poor John Morton's ready-handed honesty!
All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound; Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
Higher education— general, professional, and technical— whether under public or private auspices must be helped to grow both in quantity and quality until it is able to meet full and ready-handed the problem of training the leadership of our democracy.
Each arm well-sinewed, Each heart as a lion's ; Fiercely and wildly, Ready-handed and boldly, On each field be triumphant, Wherever you chance to be, Horo, make ready to go.
But he, mighty of main, made trial of me, and gripp'd ready-handed.
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Ready-handed means (archaic) Capable or skillful, especially at manual tasks..
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Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost succumbed on this march.
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