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ready-handed

adj

Etymology

From ready + handed.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as ready-handed — “ready + handed”

Definitions

  1. Capable or skillful, especially at manual tasks.

    • And ready money had been so much more plentiful of late, owing to poor John Morton's ready-handed honesty!

  2. In readiness, fully prepared.

    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA