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brokenhanded en · ADJ

Etymology

From broken + handed.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of broken-handed.
    • I noticed a quarrel between an old brokenhanded baboon and a young dude with fine fur. 1917, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, World Outlook - Volume 3, page 24:
    • For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 21:18-20:
    • Mighty projects countermanded ; Rash ambition, brokenhanded ; Puny man and scentless rose Tormenting Pan to double the dose. 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems (Alphonso of Castile):