broken-handed

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broken-handed

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From broken + handed.

adjective brokenhanded

  1. not comparable Having a hand that is broken. If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed;
  2. not comparable Performed using a broken hand. He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees.

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@misc{broken_handed_2026,
  title = {broken-handed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/broken-handed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}