strong-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: * strong + handed
Compound parts: strong
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more strong-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most strong-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stronghanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more strong-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most strong-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: stronghanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having hands that are strong; by extension, Strong, mighty
pos: adj
examples: The paths were kept clean; the bits of board before the door were well swept, the children looked tidy, and the old grandmother, of whose fat, happy face, and clean-starched cap, I have yet a faint vision, seemed the belle ideal of a bold-hearted, strong-handed western woman, sinking into the well-earned repose of ripened years.
No women, no children, no gray and stooping veterans,—none but erect, bright-eyed, quick-moving, strong-handed young giants—the strangest population, the finest population, the most gallant host that ever trooped down the startled solitudes of an unpeopled land.
One was evidently a mechanic — a great burly, red-faced, strong-handed man, with some tokens of the smoke and smut of his calling hidden away in creases on his neck and face and hands.
gloss: Forceful or vigorous.
pos: adj
examples: He not only punctuated his remarks with strong-handed gestures, coy smiles, dancing eyebrows, and guffaws, he seemed constantly to be folding or flinging about the loose ends of his maroon habit, seizing the limbs of panelists sitting on stage with him, waving to friends in the audience, and flipping through the program while his translator dispatched a lengthy remark.
Here, their sweat attests to labour, and their weals are caused by strong-handed grips.
Robert just nodded and then switftly turned the wheelchair with a strong-handed jerk down on one wheel in the opposite direction of Greg.
gloss: Resolute; unwavering and dauntless.
pos: adj
examples: Resolute, strong-handed fellows they were, with Ethan Allen at their head; a native of Connecticut, but brought up among the Green Mountains.
An unfathomably cunning kind of fellow, as well as an audacious and strong-handed! ... Harald flies to Lymfjord with his ships, challenges King Harald Greyfell to land and fight; which the undaunted Greyfell, though so far outnumbered, does
Wisely applied, here was a means by which the resolute and strong-handed Serbian might have become content to find his spokesman in the. eloquent and ingenious Greek
gloss: Firm; strict and harshly enforced.
pos: adj
examples: The justification for this was that individual human beings were either fragile, fearful and slaves to themselves, or beastish and prone to the war of all against all (Bauman 2000: 20), which meant that humanity needed expert social architects to provide the perfect models of the common life and also a strong-handed political agency to make these models work.
With Khomeini's death, however, Iran also lost a strong-handed arbitrator, and factional rivalries behind the curtains soon spilled over into the public arena.
But what this shows is that Richard was not really a strong-handed ruler or a harsh person.
gloss: Having many workers.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: He took us on board purely out of a national feeling, for his ship was strong-handed without us, having thirty-two souls, all told, when he received us five.
“We have rather too few men just now,” said : Well—that very day—there was a fine : Smith, “but there being no enemy on the coast, we let most of the troops go home for a few days; but by day after to-morrow we shall be strong-handed enough for a whole man-of-war's crew."
I'm downright obliged to you, Harry, and to all the rest of the boys, for comin' to help a cripple like me, for we're not very strong-handed now; the boys are gone, and I'm not much 'count any way.
gloss: Wealthy.
pos: adj
tags: US
obsolete
examples: If he be strong-handed, (has property,) he has the trees felled, about one foot from the earth, dragged into heaps, and made into an immense bonfire.
Third, the wealthy, or “strong-handed” farmer, who owns from five to twelve hundred acres, has from one-fourth to one-third under cultivation, of a kind much superior to the former; raises live stock for the home, and Atlantic city markets; sends beef, pork, cheese, lard, and butter, to New Orleans: is a man of plain, business-like sense, though not in possession, nor desirous, of a very cultivated intellect
Unlike the English country squire, the strong-handed farmer in America was a self-made man.
gloss: Strongly lateralized.
pos: adj
examples: Interestingly, the study of hadedness and brain laterality is moving toward an approach where individuals are evaluated according to the degree they are “strong-handed” or “mixed-handed” rather than being assigned to the fixed categories left-handed, right-handed, or ambidextrous.
The fact that the correlations were stronger for the absolute than for the raw EHI scores indicates that handedness may best be thought of as ranging from perfectly mixed-handed (ie, an EHI score of 0) to perfectly strong-handed (ie, an EHI score of +/-100).
There was also a marginal interaction between gender and handedness for recreational risk ratings, F(1,128)=3.70, p=D.057, with mixed-handed females assigning equivalent risk ratings (M=3.34) as strong-handed females (M=3.35), while strong-handed males assigned higher risk ratings (M=3.44) than mixed-handed males (M=2.98).
gloss: With the gun held in hands braced against each other.
pos: adv
examples: As an example, firing strong-handed from the Weaver stance, we have our left foot forward and the right foot to the rear.
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 strong-handed manner.
pos: adv
examples: Six men and two women would make but a poor job, in defending such a place as this, should the enemy invade us, as no doubt, Frenchman-like, they would take very good care to come strong-handed."
Provided that report is true, when our border neighbors visit Lawrence again they will need to come strong-handed.
Ample stimulation seems to be furnished, however, by ordinary rapid, strong-handed milking, followed by a moderate amount of drawing down of the teat and stripping out of the udder.
Derived words: strong-handedly
strong-handedness
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