Meaning of tender-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gentle; Having a light touch and compassionate actions.
2. With hands that are very sensitive and easily hurt.

Examples

“Earlston must have remembered once dining in the Manse of Maxton at a Communion time; for, as his tender-handed wife took her place beside his chair to feed her helpless husband, he always lifted up his palsied hand and always said to himself, to her, and above all, to God, the 131st Psalm.”

“A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.”

“"Because I know all about you Gilly girls. Remember when" -- he slid his thumb lower on her neck, down to the spot where her pulse beat-- "you caught that fish and made me throw it back, and then you hooked your hand? I bet you're not so tender-handed now."”

“Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.”

“This game of tennis without rackets is not for the tender-handed.”

“The English gallants who came to the colony for adventure or to escape punishment were very tender-handed. They were sent into the woods to cut down trees for clapboard, but their hands soon blistered under the heavy axe helves, and the pain caused them to frequently cry out in grat oaths.”

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