strong-handed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having hands that are strong

   Having hands that are strong; by extension, Strong, mighty

   • 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.
2. 2

   Forceful or vigorous.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Resolute

   Resolute; unwavering and dauntless.

   • Resolute, strong-handed fellows they were, with Ethan Allen at their head; a native of Connecticut, but brought up among the Green Mountains.
   • Wisely applied, here was a means by which the resolute and strong-handed Serbian might have become content to find his spokesman in the. eloquent and ingenious Greek
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   1. 4

      Firm

      Firm; strict and harshly enforced.

      • With Khomeini's death, however, Iran also lost a strong-handed arbitrator, and factional rivalries behind the curtains soon spilled over into the public arena.
      • But what this shows is that Richard was not really a strong-handed ruler or a harsh person.
   2. 5

      Having many workers.

      • He took us on board purely out of a national feeling, for his ship was strong-handed without us, having thirty-two souls, all told, when he received us five.
      • I'm downright obliged to you, Harry, and to all the rest of the boys, for comin' to help a cripple like me, for we're not very strong-handed now; the boys are gone, and I'm not much 'count any way.
   3. 6

      Wealthy.

      • If he be strong-handed, (has property,) he has the trees felled, about one foot from the earth, dragged into heaps, and made into an immense bonfire.
      • Unlike the English country squire, the strong-handed farmer in America was a self-made man.
   4. 7

      Strongly lateralized.

   5. 8

      With the gun held in hands braced against each other.

      • As an example, firing strong-handed from the Weaver stance, we have our left foot forward and the right foot to the rear.
      • And if the targets require you to make really awkward leans from your freestyle position, don't ever rule out the possibility of engaging the targets strong-handed or even possibly weak-handed.
   6. 9

      In a strong-handed manner.

      • Six men and two women would make but a poor job, in defending such a place as this, should the enemy invade us, as no doubt, Frenchman-like, they would take very good care to come strong-handed."
      • Provided that report is true, when our border neighbors visit Lawrence again they will need to come strong-handed.
      • Ample stimulation seems to be furnished, however, by ordinary rapid, strong-handed milking, followed by a moderate amount of drawing down of the teat and stripping out of the udder.

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