Meaning of closehanded | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Covetous; penurious; stingy
2. Secretive.
3. Involving close proximity.
   obsolete

Examples

“Once he got to Main Street, the street lamps puddled pale gold circles directly beneath their poles, closehanded as a string of misers, but Mason avoided even the edges of their light⟳.”

“The most famous of the roods was that of Boxley in Kent, which used to smile⟳ and bow, or frown and shake⟳ its head, as its worshippers were generous or closehanded.”

“In his buildings he was magnificent ; in his reward⟳ closehanded : so that his liberality extended rather to what regarded himself, and his own⟳ memory, than to the rewarding of merit.”

“Ye need⟳ not be so closehanded of anything I send⟳ you: ye may communicate them to whom ye will, for I am little concerned if they be published under others' name⟳ or not.”

“Formerly a tight, closehanded group of archives in fear of studio snoops in search⟳ of misappropriated property in the archives' collections, they have⟳ since blossomed into relatively open⟳ "cinematheques" complete⟳ with Rene Beauclair's The International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Centers (1988).”

“...a closehanded battle, or tumult, in which the ditferent parties are confusedly mired together, and fight⟳, as we say⟳, pellmell.”

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