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Light-handed   Listen
adjective
Light-handed  adj.  
1.
(Naut.) Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
2.
Having a metaphorically delicate touch. Antonym: heavy-handed. "the translation is... light-handed... and generally unobtrusive."





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... horses with the hides and beef, and return home to pass the winter in peace. Sometimes, on the contrary, they are so harassed by the Blackfeet, who surprise them in the night and carry off their horses, that they are forced to return light-handed, and then they have nothing to eat but ...
— Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific • Gabriel Franchere


Words linked to "Light-handed" :   delicate


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