Meaning of quickhanded | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“And yet through that same flitch of bacon, He in a sack was well nigh taken By the quickhanded farmer's wife, And barely came off with his life.”

“I was accepted as Uday's bodyguard or major domo, a position which, I was to understand⟳ later, was traditionally held by foreigners of one type⟳ or another, by Arabs, Abyssinians, Pathans, Afghans, Mongols, Turks, Persians, all the quickhanded adventurers who had come⟳ in turn⟳ to Hindustan, seeking fortune.”

“Discover⟳ yourself, and be wary; yet what are you to do? For there is a wakeful, quickhanded thief on this way.”

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