close-handed

Adjective

closehanded (comparative more closehanded, superlative most closehanded)

1. Covetous; penurious; stingy
   • Once he got to Main Street, the street lamps puddled pale gold circles directly beneath their poles, closehanded as a string of misers, but Mason avoided even the edges of their light.2015, Fran Stewart, chapter 8, in A Wee Murder in My Shop, →ISBN
2. Secretive.
   • Ye need not be so closehanded of anything I send you: ye may communicate them to whom ye will, for I am little concerned if they be published under others' name or not.2014, J.L. Berggren, Jonathan M. Borwein, Peter Borwein, Pi: A Source Book, →ISBN, page 90
3. (obsolete) Involving close proximity.
   • ...a closehanded battle, or tumult, in which the ditferent parties are confusedly mired together, and fight, as we say, pellmell.1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopædia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, Volume 1, page 115

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