close-handed

See also: closehanded

English

Etymology

From close +‎ handed.

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of closehanded
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     they were outcasts, paupers, unfriended beings, to whom the most scanty pittance was a matter of favour, and who were treated merely as children of peasants, yet poorer than the poorest, who, dying, had left them, a thankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land.

   • 1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:

     Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near—close-handed;

   • 2003, David Daniel, White Rabbit: A Mystery, →ISBN:

     Close-handed with his own information, he suspected others of holding out, too.

   • 2015, Charles Spurgeon, Vol. 33 Sermons 1938-2000:

     In the last place. I am to come to close-handed fighting.

Derived terms

• close-handedness