quickhanded
Alternative form of quick-handed.
Adjective
- Alternative form of quick-handed.
- And yet through that same flitch of bacon, He in a sack was well nigh taken By the quickhanded farmer's wife, And barely came off with his life. - 1894, Frederick Startridge Ellis, William Caxton, The History of Reynard...
- I was accepted as Uday's bodyguard or major domo, a position which, I was to understand later, was traditionally held by foreigners of one type or another, by Arabs, Abyssinians, Pathans, Afghans, Mongols, Turks,...
- Discover yourself, and be wary; yet what are you to do? For there is a wakeful, quickhanded thief on this way. - 2010, Jalal al-Din Rumi, Ehsan Yarshater, Mystical Poems of Rumi, →ISBN, page 76:
Forms
Adverb
- Alternative form of quick-handed.