What does well-handed mean?
Well-handed means Skillful at manual tasks..
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Skillful at manual tasks..
Thomas DeGrey outlined the basic surgical skills as including the ability to: 'Cauterize well, to let blood well, to be light and well-handed, bold and hardy in dressing of a Horse well'.
He has a well-handed wife called Mareon that will bake and brew for seafarers and horsemen.
She watched the muscles in his forearm flex as he cut the bread with the precision of a well-handed cook, while she fought the urge to lick her lips.
There was now, for instance, that bonny respectable well-handed lass in the village -- Thora Garth -- what objection could there be to her? She would make a good wife to any man, though of course her father was only a fisherman and not overburdened with wealth.
But the interest of a well-handed argument is, perhaps, as strong an influence as any which can be exerted to control attention.
A whole family mythology is gradually set up, as different people's stories begin to intertwine. It is a discontinuous narrative that is well-handed on the whole, with enough common ground between the narratives to hold the book together, although I found the middle parts of James Cleaver's family history far too long, and the repetition of images rather too persistent.
A director who loves to over-employ close-ups doesn't help the cliched plot move forward with any speed, but fortunately a well-handed mine disaster does spark up interest in the movie's perennial conflict between capitalists and laborers.
May the divine Savitri, the well-handed, well-fingered, and well-armed, clear thee by his might!'
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Well-handed means Skillful at manual tasks..
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Thomas DeGrey outlined the basic surgical skills as including the ability to: 'Cauterize well, to let blood well, to be light and well-handed, bold and hardy in dressing of a Horse well'.
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