Meaning of weak-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm.
2. Weak; lacking courage and strength.
   broadly
3. Understaffed
   obsolete
4. Poor; impoverished.
   obsolete

Examples

“He also had a son named Dave who thought milking a pretty tough job, and who imagined he was getting weak-handed and on the way to milker's paralysis.”

“It was no weapon for one at all weak-handed.”

“No more weak-handed handshakes.”

“It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects.”

“We have been mealy-mouthed and weak-handed; we have trifled and temporised and the Food has grown and grown.”

“Cold Feet was a futile, weak-handed little coward.”

“This flushing out of weak-handed, short-term gold speculators will prove a valuable entry point for those who have felt they missed the gold rush over the last few years.”

“With this heroic resolution, he put himself into the hands of the Zamorin with a retinue of only twelve men, being unwilling to leave the ships weak-handed for the sake of an unavailing and empty parade of attendance.”

“We were now very weak-handed; three men, besides Mr. Bedwell who was still an invalid, being ill, considerably reduced our strength”

“Owing to various stoppages occasioned by the necessity of procuring supplies of wood, a duty of peculiar difficulty in the weak-handed condition of the vessel, she did not reach the open sea until the 29th.”

“He felt himself so weak-handed with only Robinson, who might leave him, and a shepherd lad he had just hired.”

“Should he be weak-handed (poor), he is compelled to be content with what is termed girdling, which consists in cutting the bark, thereby, of course, killing the trees, and he afterwards clears away the underwood, which is seldom considerable.”

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