Word Meanings - LIGHT-HANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.

• LIGHTLEGGED
  Nimble; swift of foot. Sir P. Sidney.
• Handicapper
  One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
• Handmaiden
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• Handyy-dandy
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Lighterage
  The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
• Lightly
  With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
• HANDHOLE
  A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.
• Handcraftsman
  A handicraftsman.
• LIGHTMINDED
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate. -- Light"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• Handicraft
  A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
• Handsaw
  A saw used with one hand.
• Handyfight
  A fight with the hands; boxing.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Lightermen
  of Lighterman
• Lightman
  A man who carries or takes care of a light.
• HANDICRAFTSMAN
  A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.
• Handcuff
  A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
• Handcuffed
  of Handcuff
• LIGHTSHIP
  A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.

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