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broken-handed en · ADJ

Etymology

From broken + handed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having a hand that is broken.
   • The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon. 2011, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1:
   • The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard. 2014, Don Pendleton, Cold War Reprise, →ISBN:
   • If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed; 1916, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Volume 65:
2. (not-comparable) Performed using a broken hand.
   • He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees. 2011, P. T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory: A Novel, →ISBN, page 15:

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