quick-handed

Definitions

1. 1

   Quick and dextrous.

   • Particularly bright people did not turn out to be especially quick-handed, and particularly quick-handed people did not turn out to be especially bright.
   • This is an interesting trick, but I include it with some reluctance because it requires one very quick-handed juggler, and since quick-handedness and klutziness are not often associated, this might create a problem.
2. 2

   Done quickly and efficiently.

   • I should like first to thank Cristina Gutierrez, of my office staff, for her tireless and quick-handed work transcribing the hundreds of tape-cassettes on which the various drafts of the present work have been dictated.
   • Of the quick-handed sketches, the young furniture designer enthuses, "I find it's so important to keep jotting down ideas, even if they're the worst ideas in the world.
   • When Hector completed his quick-handed twists, he gave the cube to Jon.
3. 3

   Quickly and efficiently.

   • They drain the stalk out with their arms, quick-handed, and cleanse it with a stream of mead and filters.
   • As the two men, quick-handed, laid Bernard on a stretcher, Tess asked: 'Is he dead?'

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