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ˈstrong-ˈhanded, a. rare. [f. strong hand + -ed2.] †1. = strong a. 5 e. Obs.
1818H. B. Fearon Sk. Amer. 224 The wealthy or ‘strong-handed’ farmer..owns five to twelve hundred acres. 2. Of a ship: well-manned. Also by synecdoche, of a ship's captain: in charge of a well-manned ship.
1827J. F. Cooper Red Rover I. ii. 45 It is plain enough, by the manner in which his [a captain's] sails are furled, that he is strong-handed. 1844― Afloat & Ashore I. v. 129 He took us on board purely out of a national feeling, for his ship was strong-handed without us. 3. Forceful, imperious.
1949I. Deutscher Stalin vi. 178 Stalin..secured a more impressive abode for his Commissariat through a strong-handed intervention in a somewhat comic scramble between the commissars for accommodation. |