Meaning of naked-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lacking tools or weapons.
2. Defenseless.
   broadly

Examples

“But what I like is the excitement of choosing a path carefully, in the fear that the quagmire may reach out and suck me down; to go into the swamp naked-handed and wrest from it treasures that bring me books and clothing, and I like enough of a fight for things that I always remember how I got them.”

“"All right," Tug whispered back; "but we must get a stone or a club! 'Twon't do to go at 'em naked-handed."”

“The most ingenious of our own race of people would be puzzled to get into operation any works to answer that purpose, naked-handed as those people were, and in their state of ignorance when alone in this country.”

“Nay, was it not to be feared, that these continental democrats would prove utterly unproductive to the perfidious island, which had so often cajoled them, for months on months, to deliver them, in the end, naked-handed, to the vengeance of its monarchical and congenial allies?”

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