hard-fisted

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hard-fisted (comparative more hard-fisted, superlative most hard-fisted)

  1. Having hard or strong hands.
    a hard-fisted labourer
  2. covetous; niggardly
    • 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:
      It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]
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