weak-handed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm.

   • He also had a son named Dave who thought milking a pretty tough job, and who imagined he was getting weak-handed and on the way to milker's paralysis.
   • It was no weapon for one at all weak-handed.
   • No more weak-handed handshakes.
2. 2

   Weak

   Weak; lacking courage and strength.

   • It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects.
   • We have been mealy-mouthed and weak-handed; we have trifled and temporised and the Food has grown and grown.
   • Cold Feet was a futile, weak-handed little coward.
3. 3

   Understaffed

   • With this heroic resolution, he put himself into the hands of the Zamorin with a retinue of only twelve men, being unwilling to leave the ships weak-handed for the sake of an unavailing and empty parade of attendance.
   • We were now very weak-handed; three men, besides Mr. Bedwell who was still an invalid, being ill, considerably reduced our strength
   • Owing to various stoppages occasioned by the necessity of procuring supplies of wood, a duty of peculiar difficulty in the weak-handed condition of the vessel, she did not reach the open sea until the 29th.
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   1. 4

      Poor

      Poor; impoverished.

   2. 5

      With gun held in hands that are not braced to strengthen the grip.

      • Its cold hammer-forged barrel is beyond accurate, and the ergonomic grip is all it takes to stay steady in awkward shooting positions or when shooting weak-handed.
      • 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.
   3. 6

      In a weak-handed manner.

      • Beginning there weak-handed is not the thing to do.

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