Strong-handed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Strong-handed is an adjective meaning Having hands that are strong; by extension, Strong, mighty.
Meaning
Having hands that are strong; by extension, Strong, mighty.
More Meanings
- Forceful or vigorous.
- Resolute; unwavering and dauntless.
- Firm; strict and harshly enforced.
- (psychology) Strongly lateralized.
- (shooting) With the gun held in hands braced against each other.
- (obsolete) Having many workers.
- (obsolete, US) Wealthy.
Example Sentences
Here, their sweat attests to labour, and their weals are caused by strong-handed grips.
Robert just nodded and then switftly turned the wheelchair with a strong-handed jerk down on one wheel in the opposite direction of Greg.
Resolute, strong-handed fellows they were, with Ethan Allen at their head; a native of Connecticut, but brought up among the Green Mountains.
One was evidently a mechanic — a great burly, red-faced, strong-handed man, with some tokens of the smoke and smut of his calling hidden away in creases on his neck and face and hands.
Word Forms
- stronghanded
Related Words
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