close-handed

comparative more close-handed · superlative most close-handed

1. alternativeAlternative form of closehanded.

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

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

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   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.

   1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

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

   1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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

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