neat-handed

Definitions

Dextrous; having the skill and discipline to do precision work neatly.

Examples

“Lastly, you must learn⟳ to be diligent to perform⟳ whatsoever your Mistress commands you, to be neat in your habit, modest in your carriage, silent when she is angry, willing to please⟳, quick and neat handed about what you have⟳ to do.”

“Hard by a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set⟳ Of herbs and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses;”

“[…] if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance⟳ and animated complexion.”

“c. 1928, Rudyard Kipling, article published in The Morning Post⟳, in Andrew Lycett (ed.), Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, p. 221, For one thing, they were racially neat-handed, as those are who deal⟳ in strong sunlight with wood, fibres, cane and rattan; and their fight⟳ against fever in the past had most practically taught them tidiness.”

CEFR level