Meaning of full-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Carrying something, especially something valuable, such as a gift.
2. Wealthy, having all that is needed.
3. Enthusiastic and generous.
4. Using the palm of the hand or broad gestures.
5. Having people that fill all positions.
6. Complete; fully qualified or fully equipped.

Examples

“He was not only carrying a candle to put the finishing touch to him as a target; he had dispensed with coat and waistcoat downstairs, and was at once full-handed and unarmed”

“By night we'll all be back at this spot, full-handed or empty-handed, as it may be, but full-handed, I hope.”

“Had it so been, then for sure the robber had not got off full-handed or without a fight for it.”

“Mr. Beers came to the country full-handed, with a handsome competency to commence any business he might choose, independent of missionary patronage.”

“Lady Anna has given away half her money, and may give away the whole if she pleases. She will be the same to me whether she comes full-handed or empty. But when she is my wife her property shall be my property,—and when I die there shall be no such abomination as an eldest son.”

“...the defendant had been, all the time, since the date of the note sued on, full-handed, in easy circumstances, and able to pay all his debts.”

“Have we not the theatre, its triumphs, and full-handed thunders of applause?”

“Which cast it, that large infidel Your Omar; and your Omar drew Full-handed plaudits from our best”

“The welcome extended by our brother society to those of our Society who were present exceeded in cordiality and completeness the expectations of those who knew that there would be a warm and full-handed reception, and nothing was lacking in the perfection of arrangements for the meetings and for the comfort and pleasure of our members and their ladies.”

“By every vessel he wrote; he wrote as he gave and as he loved, in full-handed, full-hearted plenitude.”

“A spit on the palm and a full-handed slap was a deal but if only fingertips slapped then the bargaining would continue.”

“As they passed Shack he reached out and gave Helen a massive, full-handed pinch on the buttock and winked at me with relaxed, expansive good cheer.”

“Genie swung a full-handed slap that sent the gaudily dressed cop staggering back.”

“The circular strokes on the joints; long, full-handed strokes over the long bones”

“Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little machette to a queer tune, and sang something in Portuguese about "Nina, innocente!" ending with a full-handed sweep that brought the song up with a jerk.”

“All that was about what you should do in a full-handed hold 'em game when you're the small blind versus a big blind. But, suppose instead that the game is two-handed from the get go.”

“The switches go in either direction around the triangle, and a player may find himself playing as many as three positions in a full-handed game.”

“So in the first hour of my lone voyage I had proof that the Spray could at least do better than this full-handed steamship, for I was already farther on my voyage than she.”

“He regarded his younger brother as a “full-handed man of practice” and himself merely “a supported theorist.””

“It was a new and sorry sight for our full-handed American farming men to see those poor, hard Asiatic hands trying, by main strength, to break the tough straw or pull it by the roots.”

“She had, after all, learned from the same master he had although matched daggers offered no reach compared to a full-handed sword.”

“It seems to be a full-handed failure. The bankrupts must have a good deal of the values remaining in their hands.”

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