hamfists

Verb

hamfist (third-person singular simple present hamfists, present participle hamfisting, simple past and past participle hamfisted)

1. (colloquial) To handle crudely.
   • We had an open race and clocks were being read in the clubroom and I had the dubious pleasure of opening the clocks and taking out the ribbons, reckon I’d never make a clock ‘fixer’ the way I was hamfisting through the job, the old Toulets and Benzings were OK but it happened!!1972, “Scottish Racing Section”, in Britain’s Year Book of Pigeon Racing, Weybridge, Surrey: Pigeon Racing News & Gazette, →OCLC, page 227