close-handed en · ADJ
Etymology
From close + handed.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of closehanded.
alt of closehanded
Close-handed with his own information, he suspected others of holding out, too.
2003, David Daniel, White Rabbit: A Mystery, →ISBN:In the last place. I am to come to close-handed fighting.
2015, Charles Spurgeon, Vol. 33 Sermons 1938-2000:Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near—close-handed;
1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:they were outcasts, paupers, unfriended beings, to whom the most scanty pittance was a matter of favour, and who were treated merely as children of peasants, yet poorer than the poorest, who, dying, had left them, a thankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land.
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more close-handed | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most close-handed | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |