tender-handed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Gentle

   Gentle; Having a light touch and compassionate actions.

   • A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.
2. 2

   With hands that are very sensitive and easily hurt.

   • Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.
   • This game of tennis without rackets is not for the tender-handed.
3. 3

   Gently

   Gently; With a light touch.

   • You know the old rhyme, — " ' Tender-handed touch the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.' So, little friend, difficulties vanish before resolution and action."
   • Kinspeople, tender-handed, Found on the foreshore's brim A corpse the harsh sea stranded — And so far well with him.

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