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swifthanded

adj

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of swift-handed.

    • Simple people imagined his swifthanded correctness of mustering, dispersing and moving his units only through a story about the "magic of shortening distance" found in a legend
    • His maid is the queerest little body you ever saw; Recca ("Dumpy" Recca he calls her), a little black-eyed loud-voiced swifthanded Fenella of a creature, hardly above 3 1/2 feet high, for she has a terrible crook in her back;

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