wide-handed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having hands that are wide.

   • But wide-handed, beef-shouldered Jack Nicklaus, present U.S. Open champ, commonly drives the ball 260 yards, sometimes tops 325.
   • Marie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.
2. 2

   Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.

   • It was a strange kind of clapping; a sort of wide-handed upward clap, compounded by the exaggerated nasal voice the hijras used in speech.
   • He gave Swainer a wide-handed wave.
   • Governments did not dispatch their most elite units, men who are truly not replaceable, unless the situation warranted a razor-sharp slice and not a wide-handed slap.
3. 3

   Characterized by hands held away from the torso.

   • I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position.
   • He gave a wide-handed gesture, puzzled as to why she was at his flat and picking up from the way she clenched her mouth so tightly that she was very tense.
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   1. 4

      Generous

      • May God, through the wide-handed grace of His pity grant some kind of amnesty.
      • The men and women of my time were big-hearted and wide-handed people.
   2. 5

      In a wide-handed manner.

      • Not such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds
      • Wide-handed he struck and with open palm on the portion of the bargee's anatomy which, in that position, presented the largest and, in all respects, the most convenient ...

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