weak-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From weak + handed.
Compound parts: weak
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more weak-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most weak-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: weakhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more weak-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most weak-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: weakhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Weak; lacking courage and strength.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
This flushing out of weak-handed, short-term gold speculators will prove a valuable entry point for those who have felt they missed the gold rush over the last few years.
gloss: Weak; lacking courage and strength.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
slang
gloss: Understaffed
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
He felt himself so weak-handed with only Robinson, who might leave him, and a shepherd lad he had just hired.
gloss: Poor; impoverished.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Should he be weak-handed (poor), he is compelled to be content with what is termed girdling, which consists in cutting the bark, thereby, of course, killing the trees, and he afterwards clears away the underwood, which is seldom considerable.
gloss: With gun held in hands that are not braced to strengthen the grip.
pos: adv
examples: 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.
Let's face it, while there is obvious benefit to range shooting, standing at the fifteen-yard line at a barricade shooting three shots strong-handed and three shots weak-handed just does not equate to the elements the officer will experience if he or she is involved in a tactical encounter containing moving multiple suspects and lethal threat.
gloss: In a weak-handed manner.
pos: adv
examples: Beginning there weak-handed is not the thing to do.
Derived words: weak-handedness
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