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ˈhard-handed, a.
1. Having hard hands, from manual labour.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 72 Hard handed men, that worke in Athens heere, Which neuer labour'd in their mindes till now. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect I. 271 The hard-handed men of the working classes.
†2. Niggardly, penurious, close-fisted. Obs.
1593–5Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex ii. (1598) 16 More or lesse, as the passengers were bountifull or hard-handed.
3. Ruling with a firm or cruel hand; severe.
1641Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 36 The easie, or hard-handed Monarchy's. 1784Cowper Task iii. 827 The cruel gripe That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts.
Hence hardˈhandedness.
1885A. Maclaren Week Day Addr. 126 The insolence and hardhandedness of Roman rule. |