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readyhanded

readyhanded is the alternative form of ready-handed.

Meaning of ready-handed

Adjective

ready-handed (comparative more ready-handed, superlative most ready-handed)

  1. (archaic) Capable or skillful, especially at manual tasks.
    • Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost...1871, Henry Morton Stanley, How I Found Livingstone, published 2013, →ISBN

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Forms of readyhanded

comparativemore readyhanded
superlativemost readyhanded

Questions about readyhanded

What is readyhanded the alternative form of?
Readyhanded is the alternative form of ready-handed.

Words near readyhanded in the dictionary

  1. ready-reckoner
  2. ready-reckoners
  3. ready-to-drink
  4. ready-to-drinks
  5. ready-to-wear
  6. readyhanded
  7. readying
  8. readying up
  9. readymade
  10. readymades
  11. readymix

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