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swift-handed

adj

Etymology

From swift + 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 swift-handed — “swift + handed”

Definitions

  1. Characterized by quick, skillful movements of the hands.

    • Indeed, so swift-handed was Arjuna that the spectators could not perceive any interval between his taking up an arrow, and fixing it on the bow-string, and letting it off by a stretch of the Gāndiva!
    • If tiles are needed up on a roof, they are thrown three or four at a time, and caught by a worker standing on the roof. Both the thrower and the catcher must be swift-handed, otherwise the tiles will not remain whole.

  2. Quick to respond or react.

    • So, in this country, corruption or maladministration in judicial procedure would be followed by swift-handed retribution

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