Hard-fisted

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having hard or strong hands.

    "a hard-fisted labourer"

  2. 2
    covetous; niggardly

    "It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]"

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close-fistedclosefisted

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"It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]"

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