broken-handed

Adjective

broken-handed (not comparable)

1. Having a hand that is broken.
   • If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed;1916, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Volume 65
   • The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon.2011, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1
2. Performed using a broken hand.
   • He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees.2011, P. T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory: A Novel, →ISBN, page 15