nigh-hand en · ADJ
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Nearby; nearhand.
Oliver Tom Fwich-(i.e. Fitz)pathrick, as people used to call him, was the eldest son o' a comfortable farmer, who lived nigh hand to Morristown-Lattin, not far from the Liffey.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 373: