Meaning of strong-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having hands that are strong; by extension, Strong, mighty
2. Forceful or vigorous.
3. Resolute; unwavering and dauntless.
4. Firm; strict and harshly enforced.
5. Having many workers.
   obsolete
6. Wealthy.
   US, obsolete
7. Strongly lateralized.

Examples

“The paths were kept clean⟳; the bits of board⟳ before the door were well swept, the children looked tidy, and the old grandmother, of whose fat, happy face⟳, and clean-starched cap, I have⟳ yet a faint vision, seemed the belle ideal of a bold-hearted, strong-handed western woman, sinking into the well-earned repose of ripened years.”

“No women, no children, no gray and stooping veterans,—none but erect, bright-eyed, quick-moving, strong-handed young giants—the strangest population, the finest population, the most gallant host⟳ that ever trooped down the startled solitudes of an unpeopled land⟳.”

“One was evidently a mechanic — a great burly, red-faced, strong-handed man, with some tokens of the smoke⟳ and smut of his calling hidden away in creases on his neck and face⟳ and hands.”

“He not only punctuated his remarks with strong-handed gestures, coy smiles, dancing eyebrows, and guffaws, he seemed constantly to be folding or flinging about the loose ends of his maroon habit, seizing the limbs of panelists sitting on stage⟳ with him, waving to friends in the audience, and flipping through the program⟳ while his translator dispatched a lengthy remark⟳.”

“Here, their sweat⟳ attests to labour, and their weals are caused by strong-handed grips.”

“Robert just nodded and then switftly turned the wheelchair with a strong-handed jerk down on one wheel in the opposite direction of Greg.”

“Resolute, strong-handed fellows they were, with Ethan Allen at their head; a native of Connecticut, but brought up among the Green Mountains.”

“An unfathomably cunning kind of fellow, as well as an audacious and strong-handed! ... Harald flies to Lymfjord with his ships, challenges King Harald Greyfell to land⟳ and fight⟳; which the undaunted Greyfell, though so far outnumbered, does”

“Wisely applied, here was a means by which the resolute and strong-handed Serbian might have⟳ become⟳ content to find⟳ his spokesman in the. eloquent and ingenious Greek”

“The justification for this was that individual human beings were either fragile, fearful and slaves to themselves, or beastish and prone to the war of all against all (Bauman 2000: 20), which meant that humanity needed expert social architects to provide⟳ the perfect models of the common life and also a strong-handed political agency to make⟳ these models work⟳.”

“With Khomeini's death, however, Iran also lost a strong-handed arbitrator, and factional rivalries behind the curtains soon spilled over into the public arena.”

“But what this shows is that Richard was not really a strong-handed ruler or a harsh person.”

“He took us on board⟳ purely out of a national feeling, for his ship was strong-handed without us, having thirty-two souls, all told, when he received us five.”

““We have⟳ rather too few men just now,” said : Well—that very day—there was a fine : Smith, “but there being no enemy on the coast, we let⟳ most of the troops go home for a few days; but by day after to-morrow we shall be strong-handed enough for a whole man-of-war's crew."”

“I'm downright obliged to you, Harry, and to all the rest⟳ of the boys, for comin' to help⟳ a cripple like⟳ me, for we're not very strong-handed now; the boys are gone, and I'm not much 'count⟳ any way.”

“If he be strong-handed, (has property,) he has the trees felled, about one foot from the earth, dragged into heaps, and made into an immense bonfire.”

“Third, the wealthy, or “strong-handed” farmer, who owns from five to twelve hundred acres, has from one-fourth to one-third under cultivation, of a kind much superior to the former; raises live⟳ stock⟳ for the home, and Atlantic city markets; sends beef, pork, cheese, lard, and butter, to New Orleans: is a man of plain, business-like sense⟳, though not in possession, nor desirous, of a very cultivated intellect”

“Unlike the English country squire, the strong-handed farmer in America was a self-made man.”

“Interestingly, the study⟳ of hadedness and brain laterality is moving toward an approach⟳ where individuals are evaluated according to the degree they are “strong-handed” or “mixed-handed” rather than being assigned to the fixed categories left-handed, right-handed, or ambidextrous.”

“The fact that the correlations were stronger for the absolute than for the raw EHI scores indicates that handedness may best be thought of as ranging from perfectly mixed-handed (ie, an EHI score⟳ of 0) to perfectly strong-handed (ie, an EHI score⟳ of +/-100).”

“There was also a marginal interaction between gender and handedness for recreational risk⟳ ratings, F(1,128)=3.70, p=D.057, with mixed-handed females assigning equivalent risk⟳ ratings (M=3.34) as strong-handed females (M=3.35), while strong-handed males assigned higher risk⟳ ratings (M=3.44) than mixed-handed males (M=2.98).”

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